[at-l] hiking pole questions

[lwbooher@halifax.com (Leslie Booher)]

This brings up a question for me: do the positive angle (is that the term
for the tilted handles?) Lekis work in the Nomad?  anklebear

----- Original Message -----
From: Daphne Gould <daphne@alum.mit.edu>
To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Cc: <delita@mindspring.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:03 AM
Subject: [at-l] hiking pole questions


> --- Delita Wright <delita@mindspring.com> wrote:
>  > Thanks to the wonders of Kurt Russell, I am getting ready to
>  > make my first (and last for a long time - I hope) hiking pole
>
> I got some of the Titanium poles for my daughter for Christmas and found
> them on sale for $110. BTW you can get the non positive angle ones for
$85,
> but personally the ones with the angles are more comfortable to me. YMMV
>
> http://store.yahoo.com/outbackgear/lekmakultitt.html
>
> Oh just so you know, the ti poles are shorter than the regular ones. Check
> that they still fit the Nomad. Though I think I remember someone on saying
> that you can just extend them a little farther than the max and they work.
> In addition they don't have the cork handles of the regular models. I
don't
> know if this will make them more slippery/sweaty than the cork ones or
not.
>
> Daphne
>
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