 Poster: A snowHead
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What do you look for when buying ski poles?
There seems to be a lot of choice and a variety of price points and with sale prices I've found poles by plenty of reuptable brands for as low as £17
However there doesn't seem to be much to decipher between them and all seem a lot cheaper (and lighter) than my walking poles.
I'm half tempted to pick a pretty pair and choose that way!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Many alloy poles are the same but with different graphics lol
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'm half tempted to pick a pretty pair and choose that way!
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+1
Though frankly I couldn't give a t0ss what my poles look like, as long as they're cheap and more or less the right length - I may be shot down in flames here, but as far as I'm concerned a pole is pole is a pole 
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as far as I'm concerned a pole is pole is a pole
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+1 I have been using an incredibly ancient pair which came bundled with a pair of vintage skis in a house sale (the skis being now on the wall of the apartment). There's nothing wrong with them but they are tatty and I don't like the colour so when I bought some new skis from glissshop I got a new, prettier, pair for about £15. I can't see any reason to spend more, personally and I do the sort of skiing which means that if a pole broke I would carry it carefully to the nearest rubbish bin then carry on without it.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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don't get ones with grips shaped differently for Left and Right hands
pain in the a.. sorting them out each time you get off a lift.
seemed like a good idea at the time
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@andy, never heard of those. Mine just have straps, but I never use them anyway.
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@pam w, and you shouldn't be using straps off piste which some people forget 
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@andy, Many poles have a L/R strap rather than grips, I like the Leki trigger straps that have a left and right strap for your glove that can clip into any pole, much less faff!
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I like the Leki trigger straps that have a left and right strap for your glove that can clip into any pole, much less faff!
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I tried those and didn't get on with them at all, stuck in the back of a cupboard somewhere. I should get them out and sell them.
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@pam w, You should, they are great..... up until the point you need to take your gloves off to have a wee or pick your nose, then they are just a pain! 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Well in that case then, has anyone any reccomendations for snazzy ski poles
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You know it makes sense.
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Most definitely, a pole is just a pole. Get whatever's cheap. But poles are all about the basket IMO. It's a bad hair day when one is caught with the wrong basket on one's pole!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Daleybou1234 wrote: |
| Well in that case then, has anyone any reccomendations for snazzy ski poles |
leki hot shots are the way to go, you know it makes sense....
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Poster: A snowHead
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@pam w, @PaulC1984, They are Leki, but not the fancy trigger ones. The straps are bog standard nylon straps. The grips themselves have L+R shaped profiling for each hand.
Sure when skiing away from the lift you can slip a hand in each, but 50% of the time you'll want to swap them round, and 100% of the time you check to make sure it's right.
I got the black ones, since they'll go with anything.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@ansta1, not at £83 it doesn't 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@PaulC1984, I always found it a faff to detach the poles from the gloves to get onto a lift. And I am now used to skiing without any straps and wouldn't like to feel so firmly attached to my poles (yes, I know they are supposed to detach, but mine never seemed to want to). A friend hurt his hand uite badly when he fell using straps (on piste) and that, together with the fact that one of the straps on my ancient poles had lost its clip, saw me give them up altogether.
And before anyone says it, I do know how to wear straps.
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@Daleybou1234, £83 is cheap for the Hot Shots, @ansta1, your just a pi$$ head
@pam w, I know what you mean about wrist injuries, seen it happen loads!
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@PaulC1984, indeed. I even bought my wife a pair just to make sure we don't run out of drinkiepooos. Hasn't got to the stage of replacing the juniors poles just yet 
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@ansta1, PMSL, junior having them - its like they are your drug mules
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I do prefer brightly coloured poles, makes it less likely that someone will grab them by mistake and also makes them easier to spot after powder face plants 
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@Arno, why? seems sense to me. i go to pull my abs and poles are in the way.
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