Thanks for your comment @delishtreats! Glad you enjoyed my post and photos. I agree - the snow makes everything look lovely, covered in a white blanket.
I found the snowshoes much more easy to walk in than I'd expected. It felt quite natural, apart from the extra weight on each leg. Actually that was going up the hill - they were much more tricky to walk in on the way back down, but I think that was because they kept breaking through the icy surface of the snow. I think in different snow conditions they would have been easy to use both going up and going down the hill.