Alison Culshaw from Adventure Expeditions offers some tips on choosing trekking poles, and reviews three pairs, each with their own unique features and types of locking mechanisms, making them suitable for different situations: the Black Diamond Contour Elliptic Shock Compact Pole, the Grivel Trail Pole and the Fizan Compact Trekking Pole.
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