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This side shows you beaver time. And the reason it would be is that it had more flotation than the smaller one. And if you did go through ice, very seldom you did, if you watch yourself, if you listen. But this is the type of shoe you'd use for beaver trapping. So there's a trapper, a swampstomper, a traveler, and a trapper. Is there any questions on that?

Oh yeah, you can break trail with it but it gets awful, awful hard. Especially if you're going to travel any distance at all. I always preferred to make a trail and try to keep that same trail open with a pair of snowshoes and then follow it with skis.

Well, if you're trapping, you go every day. You'd at least go four times a week, that's for sure, if not five. Maybe Sunday you didn't go, that's about the only day.

Anything else?

Pardon?

No, it fills in. It fills in and then after it fills in you can just about tell where it's at. But you won't sink down only about the distance of the snow so you'll have, by springtime when it starts falling, you don't want to travel on it. Because you have, uh, trail that's four feet high sometimes, sometimes it'd be a foot, and if you tried to travel on it it was solid ice or it was a solid trail. And then there you'd slide right off and you'd be up to your, well, higher than that.

The first pair here is made out of black ash. And it's got cowhide woven in there as a webbing. It's called spar varnish and boiled linseed oil. This one here is made out of birch and rawhide. This has never had any finishes on it. It's just the same thing, I left it natural as it was.