Snowshoers

The Department of Environmental Conservation has advised hikers, skiers and snowshoers in the Adirondack back country to take safety precautions, including never traveling alone. ❋ AP (2011)

Because Kim was the leader of his group, other snowshoers weren't able to accurately describe where he had slipped, Taylor said. ❋ AP (2012)

At the grandest annual race, in the Italian Dolomites, some of the 6,349 snowshoers who competed in January looked as if they had on sprinting spikes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Barry Newman/The Wall Street Journal At a butterfly preserve in Wilton, N.Y., last month, a pack of snowshoers took off in a qualifying heat for the ninth annual National Snowshoe Championships, to be held Sunday on Mount Hood in Oregon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In winter, a few hardy souls still feel the need to bunk out in the cold, but the majority of visitors are snowshoers and cross-country skiers. ❋ Kathy Reichs (1990)

Since planes could not report the progress of the snowshoers over the grass, dirigibles and free balloons drifting with the wind gave minutetominute reports. ❋ Ward Moore (1940)

Profiting perhaps by the American example, they transported new supplies to the army by dirigibles, replacing the lost tarpaulins and rifles, daringly sending whole divisions of snowshoers by parachute almost to the eastern edge. ❋ Ward Moore (1940)

It seemed strange to think that, twenty feet above me, the world was all white with snow; the sound of sleigh-bells and church-bells, and the cries of snowshoers ringing on the clear, sharp air. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Skiers, snowboarders, snowshoers and sledders who venture into the backcountry. ❋ Darryl Leniuk (2011)