wbtravis - I have a pair of high-end twist-tightened Lekis (with shock absorbers) that I bought at WPS some years ago. They are still doing fine. I find the snap-lock concept intriguing, as I have sometimes had difficulties with the twist-lock variety (all user difficulties, I'm sure). If/when I need to replace my current pair, I'll certainly check out the snap-lock model.

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If you have extended your nervous system into your poles, we'll expect you to appear in the next Transformers movie.

So I guess, in his case, hiking without his poles would be unnerving. :wink:

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)