Great value

I always used Leki poles when I was a younger fighter of ice and snow and really appreciated them. Now, I'm a senior on fixed income with pols daring me to find cheaper ways to allocate my retirement income. I have been using the typical aluminum cane with tapered cylindrical rubber tip, but one day it struck me to check if a hiking pole would do. I liked the looks and the price of this pole, and I saw the review about slippage, but I always look at the dates of warning reviews and hope that manufacturers read about and correct the problems. So I ordered. And it is just as reliable as my faithful Lekis (which I have now passed on to a young generation of ice and snow warriors). The barrel holds in place firmly. The pole comes with a graphite tip and a snow basket, but as you see from my logon, snow to me is now only present several thousand feet above me on somewhat distant mountaintops. The rubber tip is downright ergonomic and more useful than the traditional cylindrical tip on my (retired) cane (it does tend to rotate out of alignment, so some attention has to be paid to get full benefit of it--a threaded version would be nice). I use this pole around the house for stability and it really shines on upgrades outside because, and I didn't see this mentioned anywhere, it has a heavy duty spring mounted within the barrel which acts as a great shock absorber and stabilizer. (It is pictured as an icon on the barrel but never mentioned in the literature I got, I found about it when it came to life on one of my hikes). If this pole makes it a year, I will not only declare it a great value but a great savings as well.

DesertSlug . Review provider: walmart.com

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The shipped article is for one pole, not two, so order two if you want walking poles. The poles are ideal for walking on a hard surface, such as roads, sidewalks, or smooth trails because they are very solid, have an unusually nice hand grip, and have feet rather than a pointed tip. The one defect is that the mechanism to keep the sections from collapsing when you press down on the planted pole, does not hold. However, I could find only one other set of poles which are configured with the foot at the tip, they also did not hold firmly, and the pair sold for half again as much. I will drill a hole at each of the two section joints and thread through a stove bolt, which will hold solidly, and can be removed for travel if I want to put the poles in a suitcase.

J394 . Review provider: walmart.com

redeye2 . Review provider: walmart.com