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Posted by Gear Selection (Guest) on April 19, 2007 at 12:27:14 pm EDT
In reply to Hiking Poles posted by WVbackpacker on April 12, 2007 at 6:13:04 pm EDT

I have been using poles now for a decade. As someone with bad knees I have found them to be a great aid whether going uphill or down. I am on my second set of Leki sticks and let my hiking partners use the old, but still very servicable pair. My new ones are shockabsorbing and it is a feature I like for going downhill. I did have a pair of REI poles I snapped on the first day out while falling during a stream crossing. Not really the poles fault but when a similar incident happened with my first set of Leki poles it just bent them. It does lead to an earlier comment, before crossing talus or a stream it is best to remove the straps. Before I went to a pair of poles I hiked for a number of years with a single staff. Two poles I think are better.
Another great benefit of poles is that now that I carry a tarp instead of a tent on almost all hikes, the poles for pitching it are literally at my fingertips.

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• Re: Hiking Poles - jerthebehr (Guest) 13:25:11 04/19/2007

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