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Hi Pacer pole Users.
Mine arrived a short time ago. Due to the angled handle and 5" width at that end , I am having a very hard time finding a shipping tube to pack them in. Do you think it is okay to ship them in the flimsy mesh bag they come in. Any recommendations or things that have worked for you?
Thanks
Copado
So, what in the world is "muscle cream?" Sounds like a body building supplement but that doesn't sound like you, Rachel! I always bring a lot of duct tape. I think @dougfitz has a different word for it from your part of the world, but I see you have said "duct tape." In any event, I was just going to say that I always wrap duct tape around one of my hiking poles. I inevitably need it (or find someone who does), and I can say with certainty that there is no way to predict the many ways in which duct tape might help you out in a pinch!I usually don't check my bag through but always wrap up the poles - disassembled - with my Opinel knife and nail clippers in cardboard with lots of duct tape. I take extra tape wrapped around my little tub of muscle cream to use on the return journey. On the occasion we used the tape en route to mend someone's backpack, I just bought more at a Eurostore - and picking up a cardboard box from the street has never been a problem.
The time we checked a pack through I still wrapped the poles in this way for protection.
I leave the mesh bag at home.
Because of how the gripmin shapped with Pacer Poles tubes don't work. That is the challenge the OP is facing.You may get a shipping tube at FedEx/UPS/USPS or at an office supply store such as Staples.
WIlling to bet you didn't fly out of Santiago with the poles in the cabbin...I hate to part with my Pacers so i take them apart and put them in my back pack and carry it on the plane. I have done this three times and never had a problem. Well, once maybe, on the way home when I got to NY and I was questioned. Only an hour and a half from home and they questioned it??? But, they let them go thru.
I always attach them to my pack and get the whole thing wrapped. Guess you could just have them wrapped and checked in too. Post them home from Santiago.Hi Pacer pole Users.
Mine arrived a short time ago. Due to the angled handle and 5" width at that end , I am having a very hard time finding a shipping tube to pack them in. Do you think it is okay to ship them in the flimsy mesh bag they come in. Any recommendations or things that have worked for you?
Thanks
Copado
That's a good plan, but probably only works if you don't have an intermediate stop in the EU where you'd have to go through another security checkpoint. And I agree with just checking most stuff on the way home. We always carry valuables plus a change of clothes in a separate daypack that goes under the seat anyway in case we're forced to gate check the main carry-on.My wife simply puts her Pacer Poles, disassembled, into her pack and carries them on board on the outbound flights from the U.S. I do the same with my Z-Poles.
We have done this for the last 9 years or so...sometimes more than once a year. Never a question from TSA agents even when something else in a pack has required the pack to be hand inspected and the poles are taken out along with other items. Not even given a second look.
We always check our packs on the way home, less valuables, as we are not concerned that they arrive at the same time as we do.
Duct tape around the pole - brilliant! Consider your idea stolen;-)So, what in the world is "muscle cream?" Sounds like a body building supplement but that doesn't sound like you, Rachel! I always bring a lot of duct tape. I think @dougfitz has a different word for it from your part of the world, but I see you have said "duct tape." In any event, I was just going to say that I always wrap duct tape around one of my hiking poles. I inevitably need it (or find someone who does), and I can say with certainty that there is no way to predict the many ways in which duct tape might help you out in a pinch!
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