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Originally posted by allison:
When Ray and I were first dating, before we got hitched, he suggested that they might make it easier for me to get my big ass up the hike with poles.
Now being obscenely overweight, and divorced (I still LOVE you RAY, did you get the flowers? ) I find that it helps me a lot to have some extra stablization when hauling my gigantic ass up and down the hills. Sure I look like an old codger, but at least me knees and ankes aren't crumbling. Plus I can go 1 mile an hour versus .5 miles/hr without. I like the collapsibles for when I find brush that isn't too dense, I can fold them up and go, assuming my girth doesn't hang up in the salal. Hahha obviously you got some avatars and think they are me. Well that's cool I dont really care. Just a note- when those comments were being made about that half rope thread I wasn't even near a computer. Matter of fact officespace called me up and told me you were blaming it all on me.
Oh yeah the ski poles. Buy cheap ones at goodwill. They are really good for downhill.