> >Please explain Whippet? > > Take a look at one: > > http://www.bdel.com/backcountry/poles_whippet_selt.html > >From the Web site: "...the Whippet is, without a doubt, the best self-arrest tool on God's green earth." Seems like a gross exaggeration to me, unless they aren't including snow and ice in "God's _green_ earth."