Atomic Sport Nordic Ski Poles

these are light and say made in austria on them.

Nice stiffness, and swing weight is very light. Main problem is somewhat cheap wrist strap- so short it is hard to tighten over thick gloves on those polar MN days.

These poles have decent stiffness, good cork grips, and are very lightweight. For the money, it might be hard to find a better carbon pole. The handstraps are near worthless if your hands are big, though. The strap is so short that I had difficulty fastening them over thin, size large XC gloves. Impossible to fasten over normal winter gloves. I guess you could try to sew more velcro onto the strap. The straps are removable, so I just swapped them out with some nice ones from my older poles.

Shaft is relatively stiff and strong, but the grips wear out fairly quickly and the top of one grip actually cracked off when I was climbing a pretty small hill. Higher-grade grips would make these poles a 5/5 for their price and design.