Great Poles, perfect for light mounteering..but

By Phil Santala October 24, 2010

but the BD attachable snow saw links to only one section of this pole, so the snow saw is wayyyy to short for cutting good columns when your dealing with deep snow. Definitely an issue that Black Diamond needs to address post haste!

This lock down tight, if they shrink as you ut weight on them make sure and turn the screw just a little bit. No you don't have to be a snow-boarder to appreciate these. I like to shrink them down when i'm moving across flats with my skis on my back, and when ascending really steep terrain i shirk them down so i can still grip the top of my pole and not have my hands way up high. I will collapse them all the way down and shove em in my boots when riding the START bus from free parking to J-Hole, and will use the same feture to get them out of my way when scrambling on rocky steep pitches.

These take a pretty good beating, just need some work with the BD Saw. If they did that so I could use two sections with the saw instead of the lower one, it would get 5 stars

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