Snow Anticipation Afoot with Handcrafted Snowshoes
Students enjoyed the hands-on style of the event. Photo by Mary Knight.

Snow Anticipation Afoot with Handcrafted Snowshoes

Photo by Mary Knight.

Photo by Mary Knight.

As mid-November approaches, the leaves have fallen and the frost has set in, leaving the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Stevens Point waiting for the first snow of the season. In anticipation, Centertainment Productions hosted a Build Your Own Snowshoe event for students on Friday, Nov. 11.

Attendees were provided with all the materials they would need to create their own set of snowshoes. Wooden dowels and twine were provided to create the frame of the snowshoe and different colors of yarn were to be used for the inside and straps.

Tess Tranel, travel and leisure employee for Centertainment, designed and ran the event.

“I don’t think it’s ever been done in the past, actually,” Tranel said. “In the past, crafts events usually do very, very well. I got the dates last semester, and it was a November event, so I was thinking something wintery and crafty and it popped into my head.”

Along with the required materials, Centertainment provided step by step instructions for students to follow as they created their own sets of snowshoes.

Ashley Peper, freshman mathematics major, has had some experience snowshoeing in high school and attended the event on Friday.

“It’s not as hard as I thought it would be,” Peper said. “It’s pretty basic to put together, and it’s a lot of fun.”

After picking up their materials and instructions, students sat at tables around The Encore of the Dreyfus University Center to craft, chat and listen to the folksy music being played.

Casey Koltz, sophomore urban forestry major, has never been snowshoeing but was still excited to make his own snowshoes with Centertainment.

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Photo by Mary Knight.

“I thought it was super fun,” Koltz said. “These are more like decorative snowshoes. I think they’ll be nice to hang in my room. I tried to do a Christmas theme with the red and green.”

The mellow atmosphere of the event made it easy for students to come, craft and relax.

“It wasn’t a super expensive event to put on,” Tranel said. “It just took a lot of thinking and planning and lots of work ahead of time.”

The simplicity of Build Your Own Snowshoes made it accessible and fun for all types of students.

“They definitely made it open for all students to participate and attend the event,” Koltz said.

The hard work put into creating a fun and unique do-it-yourself event resulted in smiles, fun and dozens of sets of personalized snowshoes.

Kathryn Wisniewski

Reporter

kathryn.e.wisniewski@uwsp.edu

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