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[QUOTE="Deleted member 3000, post: 80791"] A good way to guarantee a bad start to your trip is to plan on quibbling with TSA. The TSA rules ban ski poles. They permit canes for the disabled. They do not mention hiking or trekking poles. So the quibble will be whether your poles are canes, or permitted because the rules have not specifically banned hiking poles, and, while they look like ski poles, they ARE NOT, or that you are disabled and about to walk 450 miles with a cane. Good luck winning that one! I prefer to check my pack, and it never has been lost or delayed. Luis, the one-legged pilgrim, had no problem taking his crutches on the plane, so you can be "disabled" and still walk the [i]camino[/i]. Travelers have had good luck with dismantled trekking poles that are inside carry-on packs. It is the pointed tip that is worrisome, so rubber tips are recommended if you have interchangeable tips. Put the metal tips in your bath kit, and they are not banned. Gel insoles are on the banned list, so if you are using aftermarket gel boot inserts, you may have to check your boots, or at least the insoles. It is not just the TSA rules that are important. Each airline makes its own rules, which have the same force of law as the TSA rules. If your specific airline bans trekking poles, and many do, then your quibble will need to include the airline rules as well. Since airlines seem to prefer the lie to the truth, even when the truth would serve them better, I am not personally optimistic about quibbling with the airline. They can put you on the no-fly list as fast as TSA can. [/QUOTE]
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