I’m not a skeptic of hiking poles like I am of hiking boots but I’m curious if any pre-industrial people use(d) them
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why did I not think to ask you immediately
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I don’t know much about the poles. They always puzzled me, but when I ski I don’t always use them, they seem mostly superfluous, except for bump twizzling, so I figured it might be a personal idiosyncrasy.
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yeah when I was little they taught kids to ski without poles and I always liked that better
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when I grew up and started using poles they felt unnecessary but I carried them around and did plant turns for fashion’s sake
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I feel like I can downhill much faster with less impact on my shins/knees and feel more solid with less slipping. I'm fairly confident that if people raced downhill with and without hiking poles, the pole group would win.
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Have you ever been in the downhill section of a hike and your joints are aching because you pushed yourself past your normal range? Subjectively, a hiking stick feels like a huge relief. It sends some of the force through the arms and takes some off the legs
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I was thinking about this in part because I have a friend who is a very serious dance dance revolution player
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and the way you do it at a serious level is not dancing around but leaning on a bar supporting yourself with core
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so I thought it was kind of an ecological validation of the idea of taking weight off lower body —> core/arms
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but I’m still very suspicious
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A friend made a post about hiking poles and one of the trails around here. She wrote, “y’all need to stop with the hiking poles and boots. My 4 year old daughter hiked this trail with a naked Barbie in her hand and only one flip flop.”
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Love it!
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