I visited the Freeport store a few weeks ago and selected these snow shoes (bought the kit). I'm looking forward to snow so I can use them. The blue is a pretty shade. I can't speak to their quality at this point.
There's nothing wrong with these snowshoes if you know what you're doing. I saw right away that I was going to have trouble with the straps, so I sent them back. I wanted to take up snowshoeing in between my downhill ski days, but I'm too used to having a ski binding that locks my boots down securely so nothing moves. Wobbly snowshoes and cross country skis are not for this kid. Customer Service was very kind as usual when I contacted them.
We purchased the winter walker snow shoes for our family a couple years ago and were disappointed that they broke after only using them a few times each season. We returned them to LL Bean this fall and they were replaced. We are very happy with the costumer service and look forward to using our new snow shoes this year.
I rented some last winter and joined a group for an afternoon hike and enjoyed it alot. Hope I will be able to hike more this winter, but you never know in Massachusetts
