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Making tracks by making snowshoes

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Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, center, leads his scouts back inside after they successfully completed the framework for several new snowshoes.

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A nearly finished snowshoe, handmade by Naturalist Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, waits only for the binding to be added.

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Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, left, discusses the snowshoe-making process with Colton Seiler, 16, right, before they bent several pieces of wood around snowshoe frames.

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Steam rises from a tube where strips of wood soak in preparation to be bent into snowshoe frames.

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Snowshoe frames sit ready to be fitted with new pieces of wood.

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Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay carries a steaming piece of wood from the fire where it has been soaking.

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Karl Ludwig, 14, left, looks on as Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, right, helps Clay Westphal, 18, center, position a single piece of wood at the middle of a snowshoe frame before bending it.

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As Clay Westphal, 18, center right, holds the single piece of wood steady, Karl Ludwig, 14, left, Jacob Romine, 13, center left, and Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, right, bend it around a snowshoe frame.

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Steam rises off the rapidly cooling single piece of wood being bent around a snowshoe frame.

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Naturalist Scouts bend a single piece of wood around a snowshoe frame and secure it during a scouting lesson.

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Kevin Ludwig, 11, left, and Jacob Romine, 13, right, help hold a single piece of wood to a snowshoe frame as Colton Seiler, 16, struggles to secure it.

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Naturalist Scouts bend a secure a single piece of wood around a snowshoe frame and secure it.

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A nearly finished snowshoe, handmade by Naturalist Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, waits only for the binding to be added.

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A nearly finished snowshoe, handmade by Naturalist Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, waits only for the binding to be added.

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A nearly finished snowshoe, handmade by Naturalist Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, waits only for the binding to be added.

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A nearly finished snowshoe, handmade by Naturalist Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, waits only for the binding to be added.

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A nearly finished snowshoe, handmade by Naturalist Scoutmaster Larry Lindsay, waits only for the binding to be added.

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