A sense of freedom!

We have used our snowshoes while geocaching for about a year now and always enjoyed it. I always felt free while snowshoeing. Last weekend we hunted some geocaches on snowshoes. The snow was perfect! About ten inches of newly fallen virgin powder. After finding the second cache I had a revelation. Hiking on bare ground you constantly have to look at the trail so that you don't trip over a rock or a tree root. This is not the case while snowshoeing with a fair amount of snow as the snowshoes compress the snow over these obstacles. This allows you to look around and enjoy nature even more than usual. I wonder if that is why I feel so free on snowshoes?