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Lightweight and Comfortable By Ladymuk from Carson City, NV on 07/13/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Flexible, Good grips, Lightweight, Strong Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Just what I needed for hiking with my dogs.
Komperdell makes good trekking poles! By Ridge runner from Montana on 07/10/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Good grips, Lightweight Best Uses: Backpacking, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: things that are not so great about it
By Gypsy Girl 29 from HMB, CA. on 07/09/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Good grips, Strong Best Uses: Backpacking, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Great value for quality product! These poles will take me from Yosemite Valley to Mt. Whitney along the John Muir Trail.
By JB from Brattleboro, VT on 07/04/2009 Pros: Good grips, Lightweight, Strong Best Uses: Backpacking, Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I used these for the first time on a two day hike in the very wet White Mountains in early July. A plus on the trail, the granite, and across the wet log bridges. Hard to collapse when climbing up rock and had to carry them at full length. But my gut reaction to them is that they were great to have. Used them to test the depth of the peat bog we carefully navigated on slippery, wet logs.
Almost deeper than the poles!
By ??? from Atlanta, GA on 06/30/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Flexible, Good grips, Lightweight, Strong Best Uses: Backpacking, Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Bought these for a gift and was very pleased. Lightweight, decent collapsed length, strong.
By Blue Mountain Girl from Pacific Northwest on 06/24/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Flexible, Good grips, Lightweight, Strong Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I got these for my mom who is feeling a little unstable on her feet. She is thrilled with them. I do wish I had purchased little rubber caps for the tips, as they are sharp and scratch the floors inside the house.
Solid Set of Trekking Poles By Paul from Atlanta, GA on 06/15/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Flexible, Strong Cons: Grips Slippery, Heavy Best Uses: Backpacking, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: These are nice trekking poles for the money. During a weekend trip with ~4,000ft of ascending/descending these poles made a huge difference. These really helped during long downhill stretches on a slippery rain-soaked trail by providing extra points of contact with the ground. The length is easily adjustable, however I think that some periodic maintenance will be required to keep the internal adjustment mechanism working property. I found the poles to be plenty strong on steep downhill sections, but I'm not sure how they would hold up for a larger user (I'm 5'9", 156lbs).
My main gripe is the cork handle material. The grips became very slippery after hiking for 30mins or so (81 degrees, 90% humidity), defeating the purpose of having cork. I have borrowed Leki poles with cork grips before and did not experience this phenomenon, so you do get what you pay for. In the future I may upgrade to a lighter set of Leki poles, however these are a good starting point.
By River Girl from Suburban Pittsburgh PA on 05/18/2009 Best Uses: Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Nice poles for the steep up and downs, light enough to carry comfortably when not needed.
By Windmiller Nancy from Geneva, IL on 04/29/2009 Pros: Easy to adjust, Lightweight, Strong Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I gave these to my husband for his birthday. We are novice hikers so I got what I believed were good but inexpensive poles. He loved them.
They were easy to adjust so I tried them too. He is almost a foot taller than me.
Using them is easy on the knees and helps get an upper arm workout as well.
Komperdell Explorer Trekking Poles By Molly from Oswego, NY on 04/28/2009 Pros: Flexible, Good grips, Lightweight, Strong Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Following my own stem cells infused in my right knee, right hip and back,on Dec. 18, 08 I am using my trekking poles after physical therapy tosteady my walking gait, stand erect, and move strengthening my muscles.The cartilege should be grown over my bone joints in June when I havex-rays done to confirm this. I will go back to trail hiking with mynew trekking poles then. [...]
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