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I broke a GG LT3 hiking pole on a trip last weekend. Broke it near the handle (see pics). Other than the break the rest of the pole looks fine. I figure someone who’s into MYOG with smaller children might be able to make a smaller hiking pole out of it for their kid(s). Anyone interested?
Dang Doug, you gotta stop trying to pole vault across streams!
Maybe I just gotta lose weight….
Don’t be too hard on yourself Doug. Â I’ve now snapped 3 GG LT4 poles. Â I’m a big guy (270 pounds) and I can put all my weight on the poles without a problem. Â They break when I’m heading downhill (remember the Pennsylvania mountains?) and fall. Â I’m not sure how, but I always seem to end up falling on one of the poles as it straddles two rocks. Â Snap and that’s that.
On my last trip on the Mid State Trail I slipped once and broke off the bottom 4 inches of the pole (including the tip). Â I was able to extend the pole so that it was almost as long as my “unsnapped” one. Sure enough – I fell again and broke what was left of the pole in half, but at least it was the same broken pole!
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