This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the
PEM curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the Wood badge in
Traditional Skills.
Traveling in the winter when there isn't a road can be a challenge or an opportunity. Steep terrain is sometimes easier to traverse in the winter if you have snowshoes. Let's try to make a pair!
Here's one way to do it:
Minimum requirements:
- Make a traditional snowshoe set
- Roughly copy a historical snowshoe style
- Hardwood frame
- Including the binding
- This bb can only use materials that existed 200 years ago
Provide proof of the following as pictures or video (<2 min):
- The materials you're starting with
- Frame under construction
- Lacing underway
- Finished snowshoe set
- Explanation of how it matches a historical snowshoe style (Ojibwa, etc)
