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No Name February 26th 11 01:31 AM

Long adjustable ski poles
 


I am about ready to take my tele skis backcountry.

However I am having trouble finding poles that work.
I use 165cm poles for classic XC skiing, and the longest
adjustable poles I have found are just 145cm at their
longest. I do my tele turns at 115-120cm. But with 145cm
I have to bend over to go uphill, which does not work well.

Does anyone make poles that go from 115-165cm?


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Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in rec.skiing.backcountry...)

Martin Thornquist February 28th 11 07:06 AM

Long adjustable ski poles
 
[ ]

However I am having trouble finding poles that work.
I use 165cm poles for classic XC skiing, and the longest
adjustable poles I have found are just 145cm at their
longest. I do my tele turns at 115-120cm. But with 145cm
I have to bend over to go uphill, which does not work well.


I have a pair of Gipron poles that go to 165cm. They're a few years
old, I'm not sure about the model, and gipron.it doesn't seem to give
the length of their adjustable poles. I think it's the only model I've
seen that goes longer than 145cm...


Martin
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No Name February 28th 11 03:24 PM

Long adjustable ski poles
 
Martin Thornquist writes:

[ ]

However I am having trouble finding poles that work.
I use 165cm poles for classic XC skiing, and the longest
adjustable poles I have found are just 145cm at their
longest. I do my tele turns at 115-120cm. But with 145cm
I have to bend over to go uphill, which does not work well.


I have a pair of Gipron poles that go to 165cm. They're a few years
old, I'm not sure about the model, and gipron.it doesn't seem to give
the length of their adjustable poles. I think it's the only model I've
seen that goes longer than 145cm...


Martin


Thanks. Their website has a XC ski pole that goes from 120 to 160, but
I cannot find a site that sells it. I will keep looking. Thanks again,
ah


--
Andrew Hall
(Now reading Usenet in rec.skiing.backcountry...)

Sylvain Fauvel[_2_] March 24th 11 12:34 AM

Long adjustable ski poles
 

I own a set of Leki Super-Cross (Back-Country line) that
extend from 125 to 160 cm. I also have a second pair of
the super-cross as backups but this pair (more recent)
has snowshoes pictures on them so you could check
snowshoing equipment. I dont remember how long i have
had those, at least 5 years, probably less than 10.
Maybe you can check the Leki web site. Those are the
old style twist lock. I always make sure i have
spare parts (the plastic peice that actually locks the
pole and baskets). I own the second pair because
i had to search for a while before i found poles
long enough for my taste.

If you find other models i would appreciate to have
the information.

The problem is overspecialisation. Equipment maker tend
to make backcountry poles for downhill and longer
non telescopic xc ski poles for touring. Nothing
versatile.

I hope this helps.

Sylvain in Montreal.
fauvel at emt dot inrs dot ca




On 2011-02-26, wrote:


I am about ready to take my tele skis backcountry.

However I am having trouble finding poles that work.
I use 165cm poles for classic XC skiing, and the longest
adjustable poles I have found are just 145cm at their
longest. I do my tele turns at 115-120cm. But with 145cm
I have to bend over to go uphill, which does not work well.

Does anyone make poles that go from 115-165cm?



Sylvain Fauvel[_2_] March 24th 11 09:16 PM

Long adjustable ski poles
 
Leki has "Photo Carbon Speedlock" that extend to 170cm.

I am not sure how "Photo" poles handle backcountry skiing though.
On the web site, they look similar to normal poles except they
have more sections.

Probably expensive.

Hope this helps.

Sylvain

On 2011-02-26, wrote:


I am about ready to take my tele skis backcountry.

However I am having trouble finding poles that work.
I use 165cm poles for classic XC skiing, and the longest
adjustable poles I have found are just 145cm at their
longest. I do my tele turns at 115-120cm. But with 145cm
I have to bend over to go uphill, which does not work well.

Does anyone make poles that go from 115-165cm?




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