Gear Review
Sea To Summit Pocket Trowel - Reinforced Nylon
iPOOD is a stinker
By Davey Arthur
Ranked #684 - Cookware
February 6, 2010
I'm sending mine back. Haven't even used it, but its clear that it will be more trouble then its worth. To begin with the buttons that you have to press to get to the storage compartment are hard to deal with. However, the main reason I'm returning it, is that the main button that locks it in to place was broken before I even opened the box. No way this would last me while on a thru hike. My recommendation is to stick with a simple cheap trowel with no moving parts.
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Change me.
1 Comments Last Reply: August 11, 2011 By: Shawn K.
Sounds like a manufacturing defect. I've used mine for years without incident, but I don't bother accessing the storage compartment often. There's nothing wrong with a simple plastic trowel as long as it will work in the terrain you're covering. The main advantage of the iPood is its ability to hack through anything a hand trowel can be expected to deal with.
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