Are you wondering if you should bring poles on your hike or how you would look like, if you use them on your next hike? Well, you should read this before thinking about the esthetical part.
Let us start with the benefits of using walking poles:
- More stability: poles will help you on rocky trails, snow or while crossing rivers (and you might meet some streams to cross while you hike in Norway)
- Reduce stress on knees and joints: poles will lower the impact on your knees in long descents
- Make uphills easier by engaging the upper body
- Reduce general fatigue on long days
- Can prevent back and neck strain
- Can help to check out muddy ground, snow depth or streams depth
- Can prevent injuries in general
So, there is no age for using hiking poles, every hiker can benefit of using sticks.
Convinced about that? Now you are probably heading to your closest sport shop to check them out and are wondering which on you should buy? Then you should continue reading.
You will find poles in every kind of price range. Usually, the most expensive ones are the one in carbon, while the aluminium one will be cheaper. The one in carbon will be lighter than the one in aluminium, but both will do the job as you are not going to run over the mountains.
