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Hi all
This is my first post  and I hope someone can help me!
I have rented skis for my whole skiing life...25 years! and with 2 weeks in Vail and a week in Val D'Isere coming up have taken the plunge and actually saved money by buying skis for me and the Mrs.
To go with our nice shiney skis we need some poles. I am having no luck finding poles for under £70 which have decent powder baskets on. Pretty much everything on sale seems to have hard snow discs. I need 130cm poles with baskets, I am not bothered if they are carbon, composite or aluminium. The cheaper the better really.
Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
Thanks v much
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Get dirt cheap old rental poles.... they tend to have big baskets and to the same job as expensive poles. Easy! Besides all poles do the same job (pretty much)
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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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ullrfest, buy poles you like. Buy powder baskets separately. Ask ski shop to fit them.
arv, there's "big baskets" and BIG BASKETS. Heh Heh Heh.
BTW the Lekis also fit Scott and Kerma carbon poles but not Goode or Swix.
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comprex, 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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ullrfest, I've 130 cms carbon Poles with Powder baskets on them...make me an offer
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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I have K2 Five SPeeds without powder baskets (£30 delivered to your door) if you are intersted...
JT, I wasn't going to post it but figured I may as well
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wot comprex said - most shops will change them in seconds and charge very little.
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Black Diamond poles come with powder baskets and you can get a pair of adjustable length ones with carbon lower bits.
Baskets are easy to put on. Harder to take off.
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Thanks for the replies and advice.
I have scoured t'internet and found some new carbon fibre poles with soft snow baskets which also extend to be used as avalanche probes and all for £30.50 delivered! Gimmicky I know but I'm a sucker for a gadget.
Just before spotting them I bought some seperate baskets as suggested and so will take them with and probably fit them to some "dirt cheap old rental poles" when my new poles get nicked during my first hot choccie break.
Thanks again.
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when my new poles get nicked during my first hot choccie break
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Have a good one.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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ullrfest,
Where did you find the poles you have bought.
Currently I have tied on large snow baskets onto the bottom of the small ones that I cannot change because my poles are so old.
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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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ullrfest,
Make sure the mechanism that stops the pole collapsing is any good... most aren't, IME, BD excepted, so that makes the pole pretty useless...
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JT, IME the BD mechanism works well on Alu shafts, the Leki mechanism works well on carbon shafts.
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