Snowshoeing has become an endangered activity. As freezing rain has replaced snow cover, a winter walk in the New England woods is more likely to involve ice cleats than snowshoes. The average wintertime temperature in Vermont has increased by three degrees since 1895, tipping precipitation from dry snow to wet, from snow to ice, and from ice to rain. Mice have nibbled the rawhide from our snowshoes left neglected in the basement.
Essay in Flyway Journal. https://flywayjournal.org/non-fiction/snowshoeing-and-other-endangered-activities-anne-n-connor/
The changes you describe would never have occurred to me as part of the warming devastation. Now I share your loss. Miss you.
Pam