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[QUOTE="Bogong, post: 252817, member: 33223"] I haven't walked any long distance trails in Oz, but have bushwalked and XC skied extensively mostly through trackless country. In bushwaking, poles or sticks would have been an absolute menace due to getting tangled up in bushes, scrub, sphagnum etc so I've never used them here. XC skiing I've always used stocks and it would have been virtually impossible without them. A typical day in both would have been 20 to 30 miles, carrying a pack of up to 30kg and sometimes over (couldn't even think about it now). On the Camino I walked without poles, and not too many used them. Actually, only one all way, but quite a few others used the sticks and seemed to go along the level quicker and more effortlessly than me. I usually managed to leave them behind up the hills, but the real difference was downhill where they slayed me dead. Coming down off Alto de Perdon was terrible for me, and down from Cruz de Ferro was a nightmare. In the latter case others took the road and from what I saw of it from odd glimpses from the path not a single vehicle either way all day. I really wish I had had the sticks for these two bits. They certainly would have helped me retain balance better particularly in the uneven surface, loose shale, mud, running water and snowdrifts I had to slog through down from the Cruz. I fell over so many times and got so tired I couldn't even let fly with a good relieving curse! Also perhaps some other bits such as the short downhill stretch after the rise out of Castrojeriz. Otherwise I probably would have left them strapped to my pack. De Colores Bogong [/QUOTE]
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