had been snowshoeing

past perfect progressive
of snowshoe.

snowshoe

noun

a contrivance that may be attached to the foot to enable the wearer to walk on deep snow without sinking, especially a light, racket-shaped frame across which is stretched a network of rawhide.

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I had been snowshoeing through the forest, and had come out upon an unsheltered ridge that was a part of a barren area which repeated fires had changed from a forested condition to desert.

From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills