If your grandfather snowshoed, most probably it would have been on a pair of Babiche-laced (rawhide) snowshoes like these.   Country Ways brings this tradition back with these 12" x 46" Huron-style “Drift Busters”.  Great looking snowshoes for over the mantle, outside an entrance, or on any wooded trail! Yes, they are as reliable and quiet as ever, especially in the deep snow.  Select quarter-sawn white ash is steam bent and the babiche is hand laced by our skilled craftspeople in patterns developed over many hundreds of years.  Once laced, the snowshoes are coated in an exterior varnish ready for display or the next winter snow.