Good value product - Kelty Upland 1.0 Trekking Pole

These are my first trekking poles - like 'em so far. Definitely help with balance and wear-and-tear on the joints. Used them to hike in the Colorado Front Range foothills, and we hit some mixed ice and mud terrain, a narrow trail with a fairly steep dropoff, and the poles helped considerably. The basket fell off one of the poles after about a mile and a half - I may or may not have screwed it o

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