Making Alaskan Style Snowshoes

Presented By: The Folk School Fairbanks
Dates: February 14, 2025
Location: Pioneer Park - Workshop
Address: Fairbanks, AK 99708
Phone: (907) 457-1219
Time: 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Price: This class is pre-registration only. Please register by 3 days before the class begins. Registration will be closed after this time.
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There is a peaceful beauty in walking through the Alaskan winter on silent wooden snowshoes, and all your senses are truly awakened. Now you can explore this world with snowshoes you have finished yourself.

In this class we start with bare Alaskan birch frames already bent to shape. Using mallets and chisels you will make mortises, and cut and carve the cross members that hold the shape of the shoe. Using small drawknives and spokeshaves you’ll round the frames and then smooth them down with scrapers. You may sand them if you wish. You will drill holes around the frame and lace twine for the snowshoe lacing to go through. Tails are lashed with twine. At least two days are spent weaving the snowshoes with a nylon lacing.