Ok I understand hall walks now
As for the snowshoes, i bought 2 pair, My son insisted he wanted a pair too, the most uncordinated child ever and puberty is NOT helping. I bought him a 8 wide 25 long i bought for myself a 9/30 (they were the only sizes left in the store.) he could walk in the smaller pair and did just fine
I felt like the length was too much. I am fairly coordinated and i could not manage the bigger shoe and I had to tighten the foot straps all the way up. The smaller pair, although weight wise fine for me and my son, his foot is too big for them to stay on. i am going to try the smaller pair tomorrow morning and decide if i am going to keep one or the other or both based on the fact that both of my boys will grow into the larger pair. if the smaller ones are not good I will return both of them. I will also add that in looking around for snowshoes, I was stunned to see competitive RUNNING ones!
I will also say I have a pair of Yak tracks which are around $20 they are great on the hard packed trails our plowed sidewalks that have a layer of snow on them BUT do not wear them on the road, they get slippery.
BTW It is funny, I have been on this board for 7 years as L144S, a code for my real name, I now post a signiture of my dog Dixie and people keep calling me that...it is not a biggie, i post under Dixie's Chick on the dog boards but I find it amusing.
-L