Description
We consider soft, 100% cotton lampwick bindings the ideal binding for traditional snowshoes when using soft footwear like our snowshoe moccasins (note: this style of binding tends to slip off a stiff boot – try our leather bindings for use with boots). Lampwick bindings are extremely simple and lightweight, and allow you, with a little practice, to slip in and out of your snowshoes hands-free! Bindings are pre-cut to an appropriate length and sealed with beeswax. Bindings come with instructions.
Sizing Information
- We use 50″ lampwick for ourselves on our moccasins, and thus consider this to be “standard” length for soft footwear;
- Those with large feet (Mens 11+) should select “Large” (60″) length;
- Though we haven’t tried it ourselves, we’ve had others report success using lampwick on stiff boots. XL (70″) may be required for stiff boots.
Mark Moderow (verified owner) –
After army surplus bindings in Boy Scouts in Minnesota in the 60s, Sherpa style mountaineering bindings and clawed snowshoes for stiff climbing boots in the 70s-80s, and lightweight bungee bindings and snowshoes for the various large boots in dogsledding and racing since then, a return to old Stowe Canoe rawhide snowshoes, mukluks and the simple, fitted Indian Hitch binding is elegant and refreshing! Your beeswax solution to raveling wick ends is ingenious. I also spray soaked my wicking in silicone Camp-Dry to keep moisture from wet snow from freezing the bindings stiff. I’m ordering more wicking to set up another pair of traditional snowshoes for my larger mushing/camping mukluks! From Denali Park, Alaska.