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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I don’t get them. Every time I pass people using them I want to interrogate them about how they use them and what they’re good for. I think they’re mostly psychologically reassuring? Maybe there’s some practical use for wobbly people too. I feel freer without, though.
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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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Boots, otoh: I used the heavy old kind for years. They were best for high scree slopes. Then my toenails fell off. Now I can’t use them. Every time I try, my toenails come loose again. I don’t miss them, tbh.
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scree is the one place my minimal shoes slip but I haven’t had a hiking boot in decades so can’t remember if they’re better
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