Hi everyone,
I am looking for foldable poles that fold to no longer that 40 cm which also have a shock absorption system. The reason I want foldable poles is so I can fold them and pack the away in a backpack or better still in side pockets of a backpack without breaking stride. Alternatively I back put them in a belt mounted holders like these ones: https://www.amazon.com/High-Stream-Gear ... poles+belt
The reason I need shock absorption is because I went on a hike a week ago, which featured a long modest gradient descent and my knees have been hurting ever since.
So far I found one model that fits my requirements -- https://www.leki.com/us/trekking/poles/ ... arbon-dss/
However a review I found says that the DSS shock absorption system in Leki poles is inferior to Black Diamond shock absorption: https://www.outdoorgearlab.com/reviews/ ... -pro-shock
It mentions that the Leki shock absorption "bottoms out" too early. I'm wondering what "bottoming out" means. I would appreciate any opinions on what is the best shock absorption system and how poles can be carried in a way that makes it easy to take them out and put them away without stopping.
I would also appreciate if someone knows how to insert hyperlinks on this forum. I tried two different HTML formats, i.e.
<a href="url">link text</a> and [url="url]link text[/url] but neither worked.
Thanks!