Re: Hiking/trekking poles? Yay or Nay?

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Siskuwihane  <Siskuwihane1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Do you use them?

I have ski poles.
Old and active.

>Only one or a pair?

Some times one or sometimes I will take 2.  Kind of harder to ski with
one.
Sometimes I take an umbrella.  A good umbrella is hard to find.
Sometimes I take an ice ax or two.

>Purchased or home made?

Purchased, inherited, etc.

>Wood or
>metal? Do you just pick up a stick along the way?

I've certainly at times just picked up sticks.

>Mine is purchased, aluminum and only used occasionally in the warmer
>months, always used in winter. Just curious what others use  (or
>don't).

Germans.  The Germans are into them.

They are merely poles.  Too much is made of them.

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