drjeff
Well-known member
I wonder why I've skied so many days in my life and can only recall breaking one pair of poles when I was a teen. Am I just lucky? I busted up several pairs of skis.
Agree! I've got somewhere over 1000 ski days over 30 years in my career and have only broken 1 pole, and even then it was because I did something stupid(baseball bat swung one of my poles at a tree coming back from the snowbowl area of Stratton after a stupid almost fall
Skis, yup, and bunch of delams from slalom gate slams, bent shovels from plowing into bumps, blown edges from various rock hits, broken bindings, ripped off boot buckles, etc, etc, etc. But only 1 actual broken pole and couple of minor bends in my earlier days of "cheaper" non race quality aluminum poles.