[at-l] Backpacking poles on airlines

[Russ E. Boltz" <russboltz@hotmail.com (Russ E. Boltz)]

I've had my poles (collapsed) in the cabin overheads, and nary a problem
once I got past security.

See my website at www.mediate.com/russboltz
----- Original Message -----
From: "L Parker" <cacaphony@earthlink.net>
To: <russboltz@hotmail.com>
Cc: "AT-L List (E-mail)" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Backpacking poles on airlines


> <russboltz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:<mailman.1019881553.32605.at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>...
> > I take my poles with me anytime I fly, since I never know where I will
> find
> > a good place for some good walking. Airport security views them with
some
> > suspicion, but I have succeeded every time since 9/11 in the following
> ways:
> > (1) I have rubber tips on them, which makes them more like crutches or
> canes
> > (which, when you think about it, they really are!) (2) I have them fully
> > extended and use them to walk the airport hallway with, so they are seen
> as
> > walking aids. (3) It helps that I'm 54, so people think I'm
> > decrepit...chuckle.
> >
> > As for packing them, on a few occasions I have put them in my luggage,
> > collapsed, and had no problems.
>
>
> I took ALL of my mountaineering gear to New Hampshire back in December,
> poles (2), ice axes (3), crampons (2), etc., and had no problems with them
> in my checked luggage. I don't think they would have allowed all that in
the
> cabin however.
>
> Lee I Joe
>
>