Boring , Never Boring. Us old guys listen to you , the young guys are watching you and the ladies doing both. Trekking poles can be cheap or very expensive . Just getting back into hiking I bought a cheap $29 pair that had all the attachments was carbon fiber with cork handles and yes worry about the plastic tighteners but so far so good .
Thanks so much for great info. I will have an idea what to look for now. Lots of places I need to explore and these will help me get there! Hope you are staying safe and healthy.
When I see some one so young and fit jazzed about poles I am sooo happy. I am much older with a so-so leg. Now I don't feel like I am invalid or cheating . Apparently the pros use the trekker poles all the time! Thanks Kate!😍
New to using trekking poles (just an old guy easing into it around my neighborhood). Great to see a happy young person with what seems like some good advice. Thank you. BTW, if I look out my back windows, I can see South Mountain (Maryland), which I know has part of the AT.
Great video Kate. New subscriber. I saw you jeep an trailer at skidway island Savannah Georgia. Looked you up an loving your videos an journey. I wishing would have stopped a chatted with you. Hope you have happy trails. 🤗👣👣⛺🏔.
Excellent video Kate.I'd like to also mention that you can use your trekking poles to help make you look taller and bigger than you are. This is especially useful if a bear is deciding whether it wants to come and shake paws with you. The bigger you can make yourself appear the less likely it will be to advance.
I saw a video that showed how to vary your grip when ascending/descending so it makes for less fiddling with adjustments. For a descent you hold the top like you showed and for ascending you can just stick your thumb in the loop and hold the foam down low. That’s actually what the foam below the cork is for. Just sticking my thumb in feels a bit dangerous to me as I did once have a thumb surgically repaired when i got “skier’s thumb” while cycling. Ymmv I adjust my default grip so it hits at the bottom of the cork. Also you can tell which pole is right vs left. The strap has padding & the long side goes on the inside. When you put your hand in correctly it goes up against your thumb.
I prefer cork and carbon for summer, rubber and aluminum with snow baskets for Wyoming winter when I am going to be wearing gloves all the time. I was using trek poles when almost all were internal adjustment, twist locks, and screamed at them a lot when they failed. That was not cheap poles either. Yes fat fingers is real. They are a stream crossing essential. Nice compressed video with a lot of information well played.
Hi "Cheer Factor" (ha ha). I just think you could also have a trail name of Cheer Factor because you are so cheery and uplifting. But, I can still go with Feathers. Been following you since your PCT hike. Good video on trekking poles. As they say, "none of us are as smart as all of us". We can always learn from each other even when we think we knew it all (I certainly know I don't know it all on anything - ha ha). Keep up those cheery videos. We all can really use the cheering up now days. Please stay safe out there. Don from Eugene, Oregon.
Any advice for a pair of poles that can be used daily by someone with mobility issues, such as Parkinson's Disease. I'n worried about the poles taking weight, as in use on stairs.
A little fyi on the Cascade tech poles ,you can't change tips but they sell a new lower section for 10 bucks. I learned that looking for a replacement tips.
when I'm just walking around, walking dog etc. and it's hot and humid my fingers swell up and I think it's because they are hanging down, when I bend my arms up to help relieve the pressure in my hands it helps but it really makes sense if your arms are bent like you did in a 90 degree angle, blood isn't rushing to your hands. Thanks for all the information I was looking at trek poles online, knew there was a difference as the price range was very broad.
Thanks Kate for the Video. Love the tip on using the poles to make the back of a chair. Would like to know the product that you put on the cork to clean them. I have listened over and over but could not understand. Being french, I probably never herd that product name in english. Tks and hope to be back on the trail soon.
Hand sanitizer it's a product that is used to get rid of germs on your hands. It's pretty remarkable stuff and use in a few different ways it makes great lighter fluid and also cleans off permanent marker from hard surfaces. There are many brands of it. Just Google hand sanitizer
Kate Cloud Hand sanitizer. Sure. I think we got to know that product quite a bit in the last months. Sorry about that Kate. Now I can recongnize the words very well. I bought the Black Diamond, trail ergo cork. Just love them. Tks for the answer.
Detachable loops give you the kind of nerd feeling we all strive for. After 500 miles you are able to attach and detach without even watching. Since today things are only real when on IG, you need to grab your fancy camera every other minute. Tested on the PCT, Switzerland and in Israel, 2500 miles plus. Yes the system gets dusty but you can wash it, no problem. You find detachable loops on Leki, Komperdell and Fizan as well as I guess many other brands.
The shape of the poles' cross section can matter too. I've had much longer life out of parabolic poles compared to round ones of the same material. Round ones tend to deform more easily when whacked against granite boulders.
Kate, another great video full of tips, tungsten carbide or otherwise! (I was a tool & die maker in a previous life, and used lots of carbide) You left out one main use for trekking poles. I always poke them over trees that have fallen across the trail before stepping over just in case Mr. or Ms. rattler is lurking behind it. If a trail has lots of rocks, bushes or hiding places along the edges, same thing, I poke my poles out in front to provide a strike target before my ankle ends up surprising them. Or hey, they could be used to poke around rocks before taking a seat for lunch, especially rocks on Mt San Jacinto! JK I wouldn't bother with those shock absorber thingy's, as another reason I like hiking with poles is they take some of the weight off my legs and back with each step, and shocks would negate that. My bathroom scale says I exert about 10-15 lbs of downward pressure on the poles, so I'm thinking that is the same as transferring some of the work from my leg muscles to my arm muscles. FYI, just a few thousand more hiking miles and my middle name will be Dwayne Johnson! I P Freely in the woods too, at least when I'm not hanging around Moe's Tavern with Homer and the gang! th-cam.com/video/BpnxGCCQIW4/w-d-xo.html
Great job covering the poles and their many uses. One use you forgot to mention is that they can be used as a javelin and/or spear. I've often managed to supplement my trail food with some tasty deer meat after bringing down a doe or a buck with my poles. (just kidding.)
Wow! Probably the most information packed video about trekking poles I've seen! But...are all those poles yours? Or did you borrow some for the video! That's quite an assortment! ... More importantly, thanks for this video!!
They're all mine..😬 2 sets came with 2 sets of snow shoes I once purchased, 2 sets are worn out from previous thru-hikes, another two sets Hiker Hunger sent to me to try for the AZT & CDT and yeah... They've added up BUT its my hobby so they'll all be used😉 and I often let friends borrow them too 😊
For two seasons on the PCT, I bought very cheap aluminum trekking poles with clips for extension from China using Aliexpress. I also got extra tips for something really cheap like $1.98. I later saw cheap Chinese trekking poles at Big 5 Sporting Goods. I wouldn't recommend carbon and wouldn't recommend any other extension holders other than clips or these cheap things.
Personally, I would like to see trekking poles with carbon fiber up top and an aluminum lower section. Carbon fiber tubing is weakened much more from nicks and scrapes than aluminum and tends to shatter into splinters when it fails, unlike aluminum, which folds and breaks cleanly when it fails completely. I have been able to straighten both bent aluminum trekking and cross country ski poles. If broken cleanly, an external tubing splint can be attached with duct tape until the broken section can be replaced. It takes a WHOLE LOT of duct tape and some skill to temporarily repair a splintered carbon fiber pole, and replacement sections are likely to be scarce (since most people can't afford them, so there are not as many out there). **A word of caution: There are a bunch of inexpensive aluminum poles that LOOK like carbon fiber but aren't. It's apparently very easy to silk screen or apply a decal to a pole that has the appearance of carbon fiber cloth. A friend of mine bought some not-so-inexpensive Leki brand poles because he saw the carbon fiber pattern on the upper section. Leki, technically, did nothing illegal, as the poles said nothing about carbon fiber on the poles or the packaging, just that they were lightweight, leaving the assumption up to the customer. They are fine poles, just not carbon fiber. There are also many variables in the manufacturing processes of carbon fiber tubing, be it for trekking poles, bicycles, watersport paddle shafts, sailboat masts, etc. It's worth educating yourself. The only issue is that you might find that you know far more than the sales clerk. 😁 Kate: I forgot to tell you that you did an absolutely awesome job! 👍👍 Oh, fat fingers hiking w/o poles? Ya. X2
I'm still not convinced using small muscles and bone to aid large muscles and bone is a great idea. Anyway here is a method to set the grip of the cam type length adjusters - open the cam unscrew the nut so it's still loose when the cam is closed tighten the nut to finger tight with the cam closed open the cam tighten the nut another 1/4 turn close the cam Should be good. Your cams might want a little more or less than 1/4 turn.
Yeah, Virus just kinda put a cramp in my hiking plans... Regrouping, I'll be hitting the AZT fall and CDT next summer. Finished the PCT but cant post it because its "not open" I'm here though be patient. I'll be blowing this bad boy up soon with footage.😉😉😉
Called grips not handles. It is carbide not carbine. Pronounced clinometer (as in link not line). The reason you bring your hand up from below the strap as you show, besides not breaking your thumb in a fall, is that now the majority of pressure is on your wrist and not strictly on your grip. Easy to get numb fingers and thumb that way. The twist-type adjustment poles should be avoided if you are a serious hiker. Too easy to accidently collapse. Spend a little more and get the clamp type. Sorry to sound negative but you asked for comments. Keep on trekking.
Mise well 😂 ...some are old some are new, some came with other pieces of gear...etc. I feel like with any serious hobby its accessories by default add up.
Boring , Never Boring. Us old guys listen to you , the young guys are watching you and the ladies doing both. Trekking poles can be cheap or very expensive . Just getting back into hiking I bought a cheap $29 pair that had all the attachments was carbon fiber with cork handles and yes worry about the plastic tighteners but so far so good .
Loved this video, great run down and introduction
Thanks for explaining adjustment.
Thanks so much for great info. I will have an idea what to look for now. Lots of places I need to explore and these will help me get there! Hope you are staying safe and healthy.
When I see some one so young and fit jazzed about poles I am sooo happy. I am much older with a so-so leg. Now I don't feel like I am invalid or cheating . Apparently the pros use the trekker poles all the time! Thanks Kate!😍
I use my trekking pole to move, or probe anything on the ground (snakes) or anywhere I don't need to put my hands. great video Kate, thanks
Great point about the finger nail polish. I make my poles blue for hiking and red for tent setup. Great job. A tip for your tips.
Hey Kate! Are you ever coming back to TH-cam? We miss you. 😃
New to using trekking poles (just an old guy easing into it around my neighborhood). Great to see a happy young person with what seems like some good advice. Thank you. BTW, if I look out my back windows, I can see South Mountain (Maryland), which I know has part of the AT.
I would like to know how to pack a hiking bag.
Great video Kate. New subscriber. I saw you jeep an trailer at skidway island Savannah Georgia. Looked you up an loving your videos an journey. I wishing would have stopped a chatted with you. Hope you have happy trails. 🤗👣👣⛺🏔.
Thanks Feathers for all your videos. We watch them all.
Really useful.
Excellent video Kate.I'd like to also mention that you can use your trekking poles to help make you look taller and bigger than you are. This is especially useful if a bear is deciding whether it wants to come and shake paws with you. The bigger you can make yourself appear the less likely it will be to advance.
Nice 👌 watching from Bhutan 🇧🇹 🤗
Great video Kate !!!
You keep the sun shine brighter 🌞 thanks !
Nice vid girl!!!! 🤗
Awesome informative video, thanks so much!
Short and sweet. Luv it.
Glad to hear that smiling face. Great info
You are so funny.
That was the best video! Thanks!
I saw a video that showed how to vary your grip when ascending/descending so it makes for less fiddling with adjustments. For a descent you hold the top like you showed and for ascending you can just stick your thumb in the loop and hold the foam down low. That’s actually what the foam below the cork is for. Just sticking my thumb in feels a bit dangerous to me as I did once have a thumb surgically repaired when i got “skier’s thumb” while cycling. Ymmv I adjust my default grip so it hits at the bottom of the cork. Also you can tell which pole is right vs left. The strap has padding & the long side goes on the inside. When you put your hand in correctly it goes up against your thumb.
Love it!! Great tip - thank you
Awesome love the Karate 🥋 chaw chaws 👍👏 that’s always RAD ! 😁
Thanks Kate, great info.
thanks for the "CHAW"
Very informative video! Love your videos.!
Great seeing you!
Hope this finds you healthy and doing good. Hope to see you more often...
Awesome lesson Kate!
Missin you Kate out on a trail. Have you finish the last of the pct yet? There’s no corona virus out there. Come on get happy 😃.
😊 Oh my hiking days are far from done! AZT this fall, CDT next summer. And yes PCT ✔...while it was allowed 😶😉😉😉
I prefer cork and carbon for summer, rubber and aluminum with snow baskets for Wyoming winter when I am going to be wearing gloves all the time. I was using trek poles when almost all were internal adjustment, twist locks, and screamed at them a lot when they failed. That was not cheap poles either. Yes fat fingers is real. They are a stream crossing essential. Nice compressed video with a lot of information well played.
With all the poles behind you it looks like the trek pole Olympics.
We are always ready for this! LOL
Hi "Cheer Factor" (ha ha). I just think you could also have a trail name of Cheer Factor because you are so cheery and uplifting. But, I can still go with Feathers. Been following you since your PCT hike. Good video on trekking poles. As they say, "none of us are as smart as all of us". We can always learn from each other even when we think we knew it all (I certainly know I don't know it all on anything - ha ha). Keep up those cheery videos. We all can really use the cheering up now days. Please stay safe out there. Don from Eugene, Oregon.
Very good and informative video. Thanks. Good Luck to Us All, Rick
You are so informative, thanks for the tips,be safe
Awesome sticker, the climameter.
Great info, fun and short video!❤️🎒⛺️
Thank you♥
Any advice for a pair of poles that can be used daily by someone with mobility issues, such as Parkinson's Disease. I'n worried about the poles taking weight, as in use on stairs.
A little fyi on the Cascade tech poles ,you can't change tips but they sell a new lower section for 10 bucks. I learned that looking for a replacement tips.
Sure came along ways from a good old stick.
Kate how’s your gypsy wagon coming along?
Thanks for the video, been wanting info on trekking poles!
You can use them as tent poles
when I'm just walking around, walking dog etc. and it's hot and humid my fingers swell up and I think it's because they are hanging down, when I bend my arms up to help relieve the pressure in my hands it helps but it really makes sense if your arms are bent like you did in a 90 degree angle, blood isn't rushing to your hands. Thanks for all the information I was looking at trek poles online, knew there was a difference as the price range was very broad.
Thanks Kate for the Video. Love the tip on using the poles to make the back of a chair. Would like to know the product that you put on the cork to clean them. I have listened over and over but could not understand. Being french, I probably never herd that product name in english. Tks and hope to be back on the trail soon.
Hand sanitizer it's a product that is used to get rid of germs on your hands. It's pretty remarkable stuff and use in a few different ways it makes great lighter fluid and also cleans off permanent marker from hard surfaces. There are many brands of it. Just Google hand sanitizer
Kate Cloud Hand sanitizer. Sure. I think we got to know that product quite a bit in the last months. Sorry about that Kate. Now I can recongnize the words very well. I bought the Black Diamond, trail ergo cork. Just love them. Tks for the answer.
Detachable loops give you the kind of nerd feeling we all strive for. After 500 miles you are able to attach and detach without even watching. Since today things are only real when on IG, you need to grab your fancy camera every other minute. Tested on the PCT, Switzerland and in Israel, 2500 miles plus. Yes the system gets dusty but you can wash it, no problem. You find detachable loops on Leki, Komperdell and Fizan as well as I guess many other brands.
Chaw chaw!!! Love Your Spirit
The shape of the poles' cross section can matter too. I've had much longer life out of parabolic poles compared to round ones of the same material. Round ones tend to deform more easily when whacked against granite boulders.
Where have you been? How is the gypsy wagon, baby goat and that beautiful hunk of Batman (lol) ? Missing your videos badly😀🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤗
They make good snake flippers to get them out of your way. Also, use one as a gun rest when hunting.
Bigfoot has a great vlog on how to properly use trekking poles
NICE TO SEE YA
Face savers... they're not just for " Chaw" ing leaves! 😆
Thanks Kate!
Kate, another great video full of tips, tungsten carbide or otherwise! (I was a tool & die maker in a previous life, and used lots of carbide)
You left out one main use for trekking poles. I always poke them over trees that have fallen across the trail before stepping over just in case Mr. or Ms. rattler is lurking behind it. If a trail has lots of rocks, bushes or hiding places along the edges, same thing, I poke my poles out in front to provide a strike target before my ankle ends up surprising them. Or hey, they could be used to poke around rocks before taking a seat for lunch, especially rocks on Mt San Jacinto! JK
I wouldn't bother with those shock absorber thingy's, as another reason I like hiking with poles is they take some of the weight off my legs and back with each step, and shocks would negate that. My bathroom scale says I exert about 10-15 lbs of downward pressure on the poles, so I'm thinking that is the same as transferring some of the work from my leg muscles to my arm muscles. FYI, just a few thousand more hiking miles and my middle name will be Dwayne Johnson!
I P Freely in the woods too, at least when I'm not hanging around Moe's Tavern with Homer and the gang!
th-cam.com/video/BpnxGCCQIW4/w-d-xo.html
Good ~~~^^
Hi Feathers, did you finish the PCT this year??
Great job covering the poles and their many uses. One use you forgot to mention is that they can be used as a javelin and/or spear. I've often managed to supplement my trail food with some tasty deer meat after bringing down a doe or a buck with my poles. (just kidding.)
😂😂 I was reading this like no way, this guys full of it. You got me!
nothing lifts me up like hearing that voice after another grinding day at the nursing home
Wow! Probably the most information packed video about trekking poles I've seen! But...are all those poles yours? Or did you borrow some for the video! That's quite an assortment! ... More importantly, thanks for this video!!
They're all mine..😬 2 sets came with 2 sets of snow shoes I once purchased, 2 sets are worn out from previous thru-hikes, another two sets Hiker Hunger sent to me to try for the AZT & CDT and yeah... They've added up BUT its my hobby so they'll all be used😉 and I often let friends borrow them too 😊
I think there is another use for all those poles - to build the “Feathers Wall of Protection” around your campsite.
For two seasons on the PCT, I bought very cheap aluminum trekking poles with clips for extension from China using Aliexpress. I also got extra tips for something really cheap like $1.98. I later saw cheap Chinese trekking poles at Big 5 Sporting Goods. I wouldn't recommend carbon and wouldn't recommend any other extension holders other than clips or these cheap things.
😍
I like this channel, your really good. I'm a about to get an RV and do something similar.
Personally, I would like to see trekking poles with carbon fiber up top and an aluminum lower section. Carbon fiber tubing is weakened much more from nicks and scrapes than aluminum and tends to shatter into splinters when it fails, unlike aluminum, which folds and breaks cleanly when it fails completely. I have been able to straighten both bent aluminum trekking and cross country ski poles. If broken cleanly, an external tubing splint can be attached with duct tape until the broken section can be replaced. It takes a WHOLE LOT of duct tape and some skill to temporarily repair a splintered carbon fiber pole, and replacement sections are likely to be scarce (since most people can't afford them, so there are not as many out there).
**A word of caution: There are a bunch of inexpensive aluminum poles that LOOK like carbon fiber but aren't. It's apparently very easy to silk screen or apply a decal to a pole that has the appearance of carbon fiber cloth. A friend of mine bought some not-so-inexpensive Leki brand poles because he saw the carbon fiber pattern on the upper section. Leki, technically, did nothing illegal, as the poles said nothing about carbon fiber on the poles or the packaging, just that they were lightweight, leaving the assumption up to the customer. They are fine poles, just not carbon fiber. There are also many variables in the manufacturing processes of carbon fiber tubing, be it for trekking poles, bicycles, watersport paddle shafts, sailboat masts, etc. It's worth educating yourself. The only issue is that you might find that you know far more than the sales clerk. 😁
Kate: I forgot to tell you that you did an absolutely awesome job! 👍👍
Oh, fat fingers hiking w/o poles? Ya. X2
CHAW!!!
They're also tent poles, but I guess that doesn't bear mentioning?
She mentioned that at 11:25
Its in there... you mise well watch it twice 😜
@@KateCloud Yeah yeah, I know I'm frequently a bonehead.
Lol, no I think maybe your just human like the rest of us.
@@KateCloud You're. No worries you're human too. Lol...It's good to see another video. Thanks!
I'm still not convinced using small muscles and bone to aid large muscles and bone is a great idea.
Anyway here is a method to set the grip of the cam type length adjusters -
open the cam
unscrew the nut so it's still loose when the cam is closed
tighten the nut to finger tight with the cam closed
open the cam tighten the nut another 1/4 turn
close the cam
Should be good. Your cams might want a little more or less than 1/4 turn.
You Doing ok?
Yeah, Virus just kinda put a cramp in my hiking plans... Regrouping, I'll be hitting the AZT fall and CDT next summer. Finished the PCT but cant post it because its "not open" I'm here though be patient. I'll be blowing this bad boy up soon with footage.😉😉😉
Called grips not handles. It is carbide not carbine. Pronounced clinometer (as in link not line). The reason you bring your hand up from below the strap as you show, besides not breaking your thumb in a fall, is that now the majority of pressure is on your wrist and not strictly on your grip. Easy to get numb fingers and thumb that way. The twist-type adjustment poles should be avoided if you are a serious hiker. Too easy to accidently collapse. Spend a little more and get the clamp type. Sorry to sound negative but you asked for comments. Keep on trekking.
Hey! We haven’t heard from you, you doing ok?
joe brewer at backcountrybanter.com has a net bag that attaches to the pole to carry trash and whatnot
Did you know that if you hike at night spider eyes glow in the dark.
Why so many trekking poles? Do you live in a REI store? :)
Mise well 😂 ...some are old some are new, some came with other pieces of gear...etc. I feel like with any serious hobby its accessories by default add up.
Great video, but are you saying carbine or carbide tips? Carbine is a type of rifle...
I pee outside LOL
Sure have missed her pretty face.