NEW ARTICLE: Essential Winter Skills: Walking With an Ice Axe

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 UKH Articles 28 Jan 2015
ice axe skills montage, 2 kbUKHillwalking is featuring a series of articles on key hillwalking skills in association with Mountain Training. Here mountaineering and skiing instructor Lou Reynolds looks at a winter essential, walking with an ice axe.

Read more at http://www.ukhillwalking.com/articles/page.php?id=7018
 TeeBee 30 Jan 2015
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Maybe not particularly important, but are there particular benefits/drawbacks to bent shafts? My understanding is that they help with directing force during arrest, but does that make much difference to chopping abilities and such?

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