Comments on: Snowshoes Made in the USA: Impacts by the Pandemic https://www.snowshoemag.com/snowshoes-made-in-the-usa-impacts-by-the-pandemic/ Inspires & supports snowshoers around the world as the only publication solely dedicated to snowshoeing Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Hans Erdman https://www.snowshoemag.com/snowshoes-made-in-the-usa-impacts-by-the-pandemic/#comment-352810 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:03:23 +0000 https://www.snowshoemag.com/?p=101882#comment-352810 Another issue faced by traditional snowshoe manufacturers Like Iverson, Country Ways, etc. has been the ongoing infestation of Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) across the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, Wood-framed snowshoes are commonly constructed of ash frames, and EAB has killed millions of ash across the US and Canada, leading to material shortages and delays in snowshoe production.

We have 10 pair of traditional snowshoes in our household, 8 of which are from Canada (GV and Faber) and two from Iverson in Michigan and Freeman (no longer in business) in the Adirondacks of New York. To buy traditional, wood-framed snowshoes, you are pretty much going to have buy from US and Canadian manufacturers. Faber, one of the long-time hold-outs for wood in Canada, stopped making traditional snowshoes a few years back. GV in Quebec is still a good source, as well as the builders mentioned in the article and smaller, individual craftsmen in northern states and provinces.

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