During my last grand walking adventure last winter I used trekking poles for the first time, always considered them pointless. But coming through the mountains with ice and snow, and just generally walking for long distances at a time, they were a blessing. They do minimize the weight impact and provides better balance and stabilization, especially over rough and uneven terrain...
During my last grand walking adventure last winter I used trekking poles for the first time, always considered them pointless. But coming through the mountains with ice and snow, and just generally walking for long distances at a time, they were a blessing. They do minimize the weight impact and provides better balance and stabilization, especially over rough and uneven terrain...
+1 i always thought they looked goofy until i tried them, they're indispensable for cross-country or any rough terrain
I walked over 10,000 miles between 6/22 and 6/25. 85 plus pound pack, seek outside unaweep 6300 now. 85 plus because it’s a training opportunity. More food I carry less I need to stop in gollum cities. Hit and exceeded my goal of 30+ miles day/ every day for 30 days with 85+ pounds. Thru hiked AT second time (people who think it’s a challenge need to do more PT). A good pack helps, I did it with an old filbe pack too so it can be done. Been on the cdt, road walked a good part of great American rail trail plus bushwhacking. Why? Because I can’t survive in the America I live in. Because we’re living in the decline of the American empire an you ain’t gotta get ready if ya stay ready. It’s all over in the west but the screaming, so when ROL goes away, I’ll be able to be an asset to my family, community and what’s left of the republic.
Every American should be able to at the very minimum get their red card.
Trekking poles unfortunately interfere with reaction time to draw my weapon.
If all you can afford is mil surplus, goferit. Thing is, it makes you a target. Must be 20 cops harrassed me carrying an old kifaru navigator pack. Like yo bro, that was a $700 pack! Perception is important. So now I run a nice seek outside pack, and I get treated like a backpacker/ traveler instead of a vagrant who’s gonna glean your fields, stealth camp on your roofs and hit on your wives. I still do it, just don’t get preemptively harrassed for it
Every American should be able to at the very minimum get their red card.
Trekking poles unfortunately interfere with reaction time to draw my weapon.
If all you can afford is mil surplus, goferit. Thing is, it makes you a target. Must be 20 cops harrassed me carrying an old kifaru navigator pack. Like yo bro, that was a $700 pack! Perception is important. So now I run a nice seek outside pack, and I get treated like a backpacker/ traveler instead of a vagrant who’s gonna glean your fields, stealth camp on your roofs and hit on your wives. I still do it, just don’t get preemptively harrassed for it
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