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Snowshoes spread the weight of the person over a wider area and this enables the surface of the snow to support their weight.

This means that the person can walk on the surface of the snow rather than breaking through it.

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Consider the opposite. If you had an icepick you could easily drive it deeply into the snow. It's so skinny that it wouldn't have to push much snow out of the way to penetrate the surface. The bigger it gets, the more snow gets compacted as it pushes on the surface. Eventually, the weight/area gets so low that it wouldn't penetrate at all.

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