Brian, Rather late to the party, but anyway...
If it weren't for hiking poles, I would have had to give up hiking in the mountains 20 years ago (I'm 62), because going downhill was becoming too painful for my long-ago-injured left knee. With poles the knee is fine, and my stamina has become the hike-limiting variable instead. I'm a born klutz, and yes, they also help with stability. My current poles are Lexi Makalus, which weigh 600g (~1 1/4#) for the pair. They are spring-loaded to absorb the jolts of going downhill, which I like. I once bought a lighter-weight pair, and one of them snapped on the first hike. Since I switched to digital, I haven't once wished that one of them could be a monopod or tripod. Cheers, Rick On Mar 3, 2015, at 1:02 AM, Brian Walters wrote: > G'day all > > Ever since I had that stroke a couple of years ago I'm finding I get > exhausted a lot quicker than I used to. This is curtailing my bushwalking > somewhat. > > I'm wondering whether one or two hiking poles might help - these are the ones > I'm considering: > > http://www.photographybay.com/2015/01/16/manfrotto-officially-launches-off-road-backpacks-walking-sticks-tripods/ > > One of the side benefits is that one of the poles has a camera mount, so can > be used as a monopod. > > I should add that I'm not talking about extreme bushwalking - I doubt I'd be > covering more than perhaps 4 or 6 km over uneven ground in any one walk. > > > > > -- > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. http://photo.net/photos/RickW -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
