
Originally Posted by
LeeLau
Good memory steve. I kind of amble along and glide my feet when skinning and just barely skim the ground with poles when climbing. On flats, a light touch for moving with skins is nice. For those long road or glacier approaches the good old BD Traverse alu uppers with carbon lowers get adjusted longer going from 115 to 130 or longer for skating or classic style. But it doesn't really kill me or make/break a day to use fixed length poles
these ^^ just don't break, aluminium upper/carbon lower, used to be the BD flicklock, I think they call them the BD Razor now, they are the brand of pole you most often see unloaded from a chopper baskette ... they seem to be the most bomber
sometimes I use em long if I am skinning on a raised skin track, sometimes I use em short held on top like a cane, sometimes I grip them on the aluminium mast (i wrap the aluminium upper with cork roadbike tape) sometimes I use them long for xc skiing with fishscales, sometimes use them for hiking in summer, I've used them for XC road skiing with roller blades
It takes 30 seconds to adj poles on the fly and there are reason to adjust them, if you don't see a reason to use adjustable poles or you got em but don't adjust them ... that is not the fault of the adjustable poles
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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