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Snowshoeing involves strapping plastic 'raquettes' onto your walking boots which spread your weight out over the snow and provide traction using small metal spikes on the bottom of the raquette. This allows you to enter the beautiful, silent and majestic snow covered terrain of the mountains in Winter.

Gently rolling slopes, snow covered mountain trails, forest trails, near frozen lakes. The terrain is always gentler than a ski slope and often prettier and very unspoilt as we do not have to stick to prepared slopes or remain near uplifts as skiiers do.

We generally walk with 6 or less though can take up to 12 (with my boyfriend Theo as an assistant) if a large group wanted to go together. In the Pyrenees we rarely encounter anyone else in the Alps we may pass by a few groups of similar size during the day.

Anyone who is happy with the idea of walking in the hills or mountains of the UK for 6 hours or so would find snowshoeing to be no more challenging than that. We are there to enjoy the scenery and get a bit of exercise- we are not there to challenge ourselves or to train for a military expedition! We have taken individuals over 70 years old snowshoeing before and others who have do very little exercise for years- they all loved it. We won't push you to do anything you don't want to do.

We recommend snowshoeing for those over 12 years of age. We do not have a cut-off at the upper end- if you think you're up for it then you probably are. In fact we especially recommend snowshoeing as an excellent form of cardio-vascular exercise for individuals over 60.