[pct-l] Trail Gear - Pole Tips

[Marion Davison]

We hike with old ski poles with Leki tips added.  We carry spare tips. 
Ray has replaced them in the field several times, by carving off the old 
tip (the plastic part) and hammering on the new ones with whatever is 
available.  He found a picnic table very handy for this operation on one 
occasion.
Why old ski poles, you may ask?  I hike with llamas and they frequently 
step on my poles.  They haven't been able to break my ski poles. I would 
be so pissed if they broke a hundred dollar trekking pole, and besides, 
I can't hike without my poles because I have bad knees.  So I need 
durable poles.