I bought these snowshoes ten years ago when moving to Alaska. Now living on a lake in Minnesota, they continue to be in use for 1-2 hours a day in all types of weather, terrain, and snow. I, also, teach snow shoeing. After ten years, the decking at the back corner is beginning to tear. Other than that I have replaced 2 grommets.

I constantly say these snowshoes are among the best money ever spent. They are manuveurble, fast and easy to put on and take off (handy when you are trying to get 25 students into other less-easy snow shoes) and NO constant soaking snow spray. I believe the two point decking attachment at the back, by distributing the stress on the decking, has been important in the shoes lasting this long. I have and will continue to highly reccommend these shoes and will continue my search to replace what has worked well over literally hundreds of snowshoeing miles.