I'm a 5'5", 150-lb. woman living in the New York...

By Stace Ranked #591 - Snowshoes December 6, 2008

I'm a 5'5", 150-lb. woman living in the New York City area. I tried snowshoeing at a ski resort in the White Mountains of NH last year and absolutely loved it. (I'm sooo delighted to have found "my" winter sport, because I tore up a knee irreparably in a bad accident my first time on skis in my teens and have had pain and some lameness in that leg ever since...so you couldn't pay me to put on skis again; but snowshoeing felt utterly different--vastly more secure, and lovely!) Anyway, my question (finally :) is, for day-hiking sort of snowshoeing, on trails or in parks on the East Coast, what do I really need in the way of snowshoes, and what can I dispense with? I'm not going to be breaking new trail in the Rockies; and I'm rather short for a human and wholly female-shaped, wide-hipped and thus knock-kneed, and broad of thigh but small of foot, and all the rest of the typical XX morphology. :-)Thanks in advance for curing my ignorance.

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