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Adapt All-Terrain Gear is a new startup. Their first offering is the Bison carbon fiber pole, which weighs 3.9 ounces/pole and costs only $72. The weight is miniscule and the price is a super value, but how do these poles perform and hold up under rough field use?
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By Will Rietveld
Will Rietveld Ph.D, Senior Editor for Gear and Apparel, joined the BPL staff in April 2004. In his former career, Will was a research scientist, project manager, and R&D program administrator. Now retired, he lives in southern Colorado where he takes up a new career of backpacking year-round in the mountains and canyon country of the Southwest. During the summer months Will and his wife Janet are volunteer wilderness rangers in the Weminuche Wilderness. He has been a lightweight backpacker for 52 years and an ultralight backpacker for 13 years.
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Companion forum thread to:
Adapt Gear Bison Trekking Pole REVIEW
From the manufacturer(!):
Hey guys, Ian Schumann here, head of Adapt Gear. The Adapt website is a little irresponsibly still under development, although a temporary page will probably be up sometime tomorrow. In the meantime, if you're interested in more info or ordering a pair of Bison poles, please email me at: info [at] adaptgear.com . Thanks much BPL!
Scratch that, temp site is up right now, very scrappy but functional. http://www.adaptgear.com.
Enjoy.
I have a pair of these. You should probably see my review in the reader review section before you buy a set for yourself.
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