In a book that takes place in northern Sweden in the mid-19th century, the protagonists use something called myrskidor (literally "mire skis") to enter or cross mires / bogs. The principle seems to make sense: like with skis or snowshoes on snow, distributing the weight makes one sink less. Although the book is a work of fiction, this detail appears realistic, as both Wikipedia and museums refer to such skis. Yet it seems that such bog skis today no longer exist. I've never seen any either in the wild or for sale in outdoor stores. Wikipedia has only a brief article and only in Swedish written entirely in the past tense, and a web search in English yields some references from Wisconsin or New York State (USA), including a result claiming they are uniquely Wisconsin (this would seem to be inaccurate considering the Swedish tradition; perhaps Swedish immigrants brought them, although the modern Wisconsin ones are much longer than the old Swedish ones).
Bog skis. Source: Carina Larsson-Johansson, CC-BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons.
Why did bog skis fall out of use? Are they too hard to use? Too niche? Do we have better methods of crossing bogs? Or we simply don't go there anymore? The protagonist in the book mentions that if he falls he is done for and will never be able to get up again, but I don't know how literally he meant that.