Winters were so rough for the tie hackers
The tie hackers made wooden skis as well as snowshoes. The snowshoes were wet wood molded and tied together with barbed wire. Then across the shoe area, they stretched barbed wire and tied leather to it to be able to attach their shoes . Pretty ingenius ! Their skis were solid wood made from the sides of the logs that the ties were cut from and they were 8 or 9 ft. long. They wasted nothing.
