[pct-l] best way to travel by air with trekking poles?

[Hillary Schwirtlich]

I've flown with my trekking poles as carryons (three times, once to
Australia). It just depends on the TSA agents you get.
Seahorse
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:41 PM, Tim Gustafson <tjg at tgustafson.com> wrote:

> > What is the best way to fly with trekking poles?
>
> I have an airplane bag from REI that my pack goes into, and I just
> stuffed the poles in the airplane bag (along with my crash pad), and
> that worked fine for me.  When I got to the kick-off, I mailed my
> airplane bag to the town that I was getting off the trail at.  Worked
> like a charm, plus it protects your pack straps and clips and so on
> from getting destroyed by the conveyor belts in the airports.
>
> --
>
> Tim Gustafson
> tjg at tgustafson.com
> http://tgustafson.com/
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