Watch your step and walking pole placement

Ouch!

As Barby says, "Ouch!!!" 30 min of ice and 30 min of cold alternate as often as possible. So glad it was only soft tissue.

I have heard many complaints about poles from, "they are constantly, tap, tap, tapping all day long, getting stuck, sliding, all sorts of things. If I may, when I bought my sticks, they came with snow baskets and treaded rubber feet. For use on the Camino in May / June, the rubber feet are installed. Because of this, they are quiet, do not get stuck into anything and, a little bonus, they have been allowed through TSA every time, including Toronto, Montreal, Dublin, London, Paris and Santiago. Yes, I was allowed to walk them onto and off of every plane.

A timely and pertinent reminder Lee , one consolation is that bruises heal faster than breaks
Whilst walking through the Lerderderg Gorge near Melbourne some years ago I saw a horrendous injury caused by much the same circumstance . Walking along the dry river bed a bush walker's Carbon fibre pole stuck between two boulders , it snapped as it twisted under the walkers weight and subsequently impaled them as they fell onto the jagged stump . Fortunately the damage was limited to flesh rather than organs . I have used alloy poles ever since !