DCHP-1 Online
make track 
move ahead of a dog team, a vehicle, or a party of people, making a way through heavy snow, often on snowshoes.
See also: break trail
- 1846 (1955) The Indians took it in turn to go in front and "make track," this being . . . most fatiguing. . . .
- 1846 (1955) The Indians took it in turn to go in front and "make track," this being . . . most fatiguing. . . .