Any teacher knows that preparing a class of young students to go outdoors in the winter can be a frustrating task, as they wrestle with cumbersome boots, twisted snow pants and the ever disappearing pairs of mittens. Now add 25 pairs of snowshoes with their straps and buckles to the mix and what have you got? Twenty‐five excited winter explorers is the answer! Because as any kid knows, the chance to go out and play in the snow is literally a breath of fresh, if cold, air during a long winter indoors.