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[QUOTE="BrienC, post: 442655, member: 44406"] I love my poles, and I've read that we are something like 25% more efficient when we use them. However, one long day during a very recent trek in the Sierra Nevada range of central California, I planned to camp by a lake near to 12,000 feet in elevation. This would be another 18-mile day, about a week into my trip. Late that afternoon I met an older gentleman (older than myself anyway) coming down the same trail I was headed up. We offered the usual greetings and he asked where I planned to camp that night. I told him and he asked if I had hiked this portion of the trail before. No, I had not, this was my first time. He stated that the next few miles were, “a b#$@!.” Hoping for a different reality, I told myself he was a negative type; the whole trail is hard if you look at it that way. WRONG. That section of just a few short miles is unusually rugged and was a whole lot of work on weary legs at the end of a long day. As I neared my destination, the trail made a quick turn to the right along a dry streambed. I was looking around to see where the track led off to, got tripped up in my trekking poles and did a pounding face plant on the rocks. This all hurt so bad—you know, that traumatic shock to bodily systems—that I thought it possibly the end of my journey, right there and then. Slowly, I recovered enough to do a self-assessment: what was truly an issue? Sprained fingers and a wrist; scraped knees; and, something quite askew with my face. (I’ll save your sensibilities by not including the pictures here I took of that facial injury. I didn’t have a mirror, but an iPhone selfie did suffice.) I rinsed everything and felt about to see how bad it might be, finding a hole with my tongue on the inside of my lip, and a hole with my finger on the outside. Did I have a hole through my lip? Then my first thought was, how am I going to blow up my air mattress with a hole in my lip? Fortunately, the hole did not go all the way through, the fall did not end my trip, and the damage did all eventually heal. Buen Camino!!! [/QUOTE]
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