1789  (1882)  Your success in killing [moose] depends on the number of people you have to pursue and relieve one another in going first (which is the fatiguing part of snowshoeing). . . .
1887  Snow-shoeing consists chiefly in tumbling down and picking one self up; and the wise snow-shoer will leave this latter task to some one else. . . .
1966  He was named King of the Trappers in Edmonton . . . defeating all comers at load-carrying . . . and snowshoeing.