MORPHO TRIMOV'ALP Light Snowshoe Pair

These snowshoes are cute, and I really wanted to like them. The bindings are fine--I can't imagine that anyone with boots larger than mine (women's size 7) would be able to fit in them, but for me they're nice and comfortable. And the heel raise works well, it's easier to raise and lower than many. And did I mention they're cute?The trouble is, these things have NO traction. They have six teeny tiny little metal teeth on the bottom, and a toe crampon with two spikes. Other than that, my impression is that the traction is supposed to be provided by the plastic ridges running vertically along the bottom. Note to designers: plastic does NOT provide traction in snow! And even if it did, there's nothing at all in the way of horizontal traction. Going uphill, all you've got Is those two small spikes on the toe crampon, and going downhill there is nothing at all to slow you down.Since neither Morpho nor Amazon has seen fit to provide images of the bottoms of these 'shoes, I've attached a few.EDIT: Interestingly, someone from the Morpho company tracked me down on LinkedIn. He was surprised that I'd had negative things to say about these snowshoes, and asked me how I could write the things I did. I responded and explained my review. Rather than offering new information that may have allowed me to change my review, he wrote the following:" I propose to buy back from you the Morphoalp and the trimo ultralight basic snowshoes at 90% of the price you bought them from amazon, given that: 1- you remove as of now your reviews about the three styles from the amazon website, or remove the two reviews about the styles we are proposing to buy back from you and raise the rating to 4 stars of trimovalp light. "Needless to say, I have no intention of lying in a public forum! If others buy these snowshoes and find them useful, great. But I did not. All three snowshoes I tried, the Morphoalp, the trimo ultralight and the trimovalp light, were entirely free of any form of meaningful traction; all three had narrow toe frames, which I imagine would be difficult for a foot much larger than mine to squeeze into.In the meantime, I've realized why I almost sprained an ankle using Morpho snowshoes, while I've never had that problem with any others. The ankle strap means that your entire foot is lashed to the hard, inflexible footbed. When the snowshoe tilts to the side, your whole foot, including the ankle, goes with it. Not, in my opinion, a good idea.I do have one good comment: Amazon took back all three pairs of snowshoes, no questions asked, and paid for return shipping. Way to go, Amazon!

I have similar ones, just the lighter weight pair, I wear a size 10 boot and a male friend wears a size 12, we had absolutely no problems strapping these onto our feet. Perhaps the other reviewer didn't realize that the system moves to accept the different sized feet. Also we used ours over rocks and snow and ice, other than the rocks we had no problems with traction. I compared the pics and they look just like the bottoms of mine. We did use hiking poles, but I kind of thought everyone does that