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Price : $9.99

Features

• Made of durable aluminum alloy with 3 adjustable telescoping sections
• Comfortable hand grip with adjustable strap to keep you and your pole together
• Built-in compass to keep you on track
• Protective cap, basket and rubber tip included for their anti-shock design
• Will fully compress to put away and extended to assist your walking needs

Product Description

HIKING POLE

Customer Reviews

Review date : 2009-01-15
After having lost my previous trekking poles, I searched everywhere for replacements. Unfortunately, everything I found that even approached what I had was very expensive. Then I ran across these trekking poles at an amazingly inexpensive price. I couldn’t be more pleased with them.

Review date : 2009-01-12
I’ve been an avid hiker/backpacker for 25 years and was skeptical about the benefits of using hiking poles. I decided to try these very inexpensive poles before investing in a high-end set. Using two, I am simply amazed at the increased endurance going uphill, and the decrease in knee pain going downhill. They are great for crossing streams, and can be used to pitch a tarp. As for these particular poles, after about 40 miles of use in varied terrain, they appear to be very durable; I now see no need to "invest" in an expensive set.

Review date : 2009-01-09
Make sure you order TWO of these as 1 (ONE) pole is what you get per order. Better yet don’t order ANY.. DAH! Then follow the instructions, figure out the pole does not telescope out and lock into place as written, get a set of pliers, try again, now it all comes apart, reassemble this junker into place, turn until your wrists hurt, finally using a vice-grip lock the pole into a permanent length and hope to God it doesn’t fold the 1st time U put weight on it. You are better off buying 2 4ft dowels and much safer. Junk is what U end up with thin bendable aluminum trash. Try that with ice cold hands!!!!!!

Review date : 2009-01-08
Great for hiking or walking, good balance and weight, with 3 adjustable telescoping sections, good and comfortable hand grip, the compass is very simple but its ok, great cap for the tip.
Best option for a few $

Review date : 2008-11-12
i haven’t had any problems with tips falling out, but the adjustable pole lock no longer works on one of the poles, no matter which way i screw the thing. very unfortunate, because otherwise this seems to be a decent product for very little money.

I want to tell you a love story. It?s actually about a girl named Cinderella. I?m sure you?re familiar with the fairy tale but I?m going to tell you the TRUE story.

I know it?s true because I am Cinderella. And my story is found in Ezekiel 16 in the Bible. It starts like this:

?On the day you were born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to make you clean, nor were you rubbed with salt or wrapped in cloths. No one looked on you with pity or had compassion enough to do any of these things for you. Rather, you were thrown out into the open field, for on the day you were born you were despised.?

By all appearances, my birth was not as bad as this sounds. But, though I had parents who cared for me and loved me as best they could, it was in the heart that I felt something missing. As in every girl?s life there were hurtful words and bad experiences, disappointment and things that caused me to fear. I loved to have fun and laugh with my friends but, even from young, I was so aware of being good or bad. Like a black cloak covering me, I felt that I was never quite good enough and that fact surrounded me all the time.

I didn?t know that Someone was watching over me. He was my Prince ? like in the fairy tale ? Prince Charming. Listen to a little more of the story. This is where He enters the picture:

?Then I passed by and saw you kicking about?and I said to you, ?Live!? I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew up and developed and became the most beautiful of jewels. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, you who were naked and bare.?

I heard about this Prince from my family but He seemed to be Someone they revered yet feared enough to kept their distant from Him. He was supposedly good, kind, generous and talked a lot about love BUT He was more to be frightened of more than anything ? especially if you knew what was good for you!

They told me He would punish me if I was bad! And that there wasn?t much I could do about being bad except ask for forgiveness a lot and try to be good! Looking at the black cloak around me, I knew I was in trouble. So I tried to say all the right words and do nice things so He wouldn?t notice me and get mad at me.

Little did I know that the Prince Himself was watching me ? closely. He saw the bad ? the black. He knew every thought I was thinking. He saw everything I did ? even the secret things.

He observed from where I couldn?t see Him and, like a seed that He had planted, He told me to GROW! I wasn?t aware of His smile as He saw me developing. I had no idea that if you had asked Him during those growing up years what He thought of me, He would have said, ?She is becoming the most beautiful of jewels!? Of course, I never would have believed it if I had heard it and you may not have either if you had known me?but He was the Prince and He never lies.

That I did believe. I knew He was Someone special?in fact, I heard that because I was so very bad, that He had even died in my place so I wouldn?t have to take the punishment.

He died? Because I was bad?

I pulled my cloak tighter around me and huddled inside - ashamed. That was sad and I felt awful that that should happen. I promised Him, wherever He was, that I would forever be grateful for that and I would try my hardest to be worthy of that death. After all, they said that His death had saved me from a forever in darkness.

My Prince watched and waited. He had introduced Himself and now waited for the right time when I would be ready to know the whole story.

He watched me live with a heart that passionately sought to be loved. He heard the words that wounded me and saw me waste my time, my life, my innocence, my mind on things that devastated me. He watched me reach out to boys and then to men to fill this hole within me ? to look to them to meet the deep desire to be chosen, to be the one over whom someone would become a romantic fool.

Every now and then ? I would hear Him ? just a whisper, ?I love you??

?I know You love me ? You died for me to pay for what I deserved. Thank you.?

?Cinderella, that?s not all?do you know how my heart sings when I look at you? Can you not hear the music??

No, I could not hear the music?..because I was always looking and listening somewhere else.

That is until the man I married and thought would make all my dreams came true walked out on me. Devastated, I felt that I had been thrown out into the field and left to die.

?See?? I raged to the God Who was supposed to keep these things from happening, ?See? I tried so hard to hide this black?I trusted him to stay, to love me just the way I am?and it?s as I always feared. He doesn?t love me because I?m bad ? I?m not good enough. I always knew it!?

I wept! I screamed! I hated and I ??..broke. Alone. I had to go there alone because it was my road to walk. I began to shrink back inside myself because every dream I had ever had crumbled to the floor. It was over ? everything was over.

Let?s go on with the story: ?Later I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love, I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness. I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you? and you became Mine.?

One day during that dark time He came to me as never before. I had been reading these verses and it was as if He picked me up in His arms ? for I was too weak to walk. And He carried me to His castle ? a cool, dark secret room where He laid me bleeding and trembling, on a bed of soft comfort.

For the first time, I looked straight into His eyes. And I saw that He had been there all along, waiting. He didn?t say anything ? we just looked at each other. I knew He saw every dark and weary place inside me.

He looked right at the black cloak ? every part ? I felt naked and embarassed. Gently, He took a corner of His cloak and covered me with it. When I looked at myself, I saw that the black cloak I had always worn was gone. What was left was His covering and I began to understand the real story.

He explained it to me like this: ?Precious one, when I died for you it wasn?t just because you were pathetically bad. It was because you were in the clutches of my arch enemy, Satan, and he was holding you captive to get back at Me. You were following your natural inclinations to be as he is ? out for himself, cruel, selfish. He knew how much it hurt Me for him to blind and wound you! He swore he would snatch every one of you from Me so I would lose you forever ? his goal was to take you for eternity ? never to be with Me!

So I stepped in. I offered him a chance to war against Me ? and in the end I let him kill Me.

He thought that he had won ? and laughed for 3 days. But that was the plan?.

When I came back to life, he no longer laughed. In fact, he cowered in terror because he knew I had taken the power that death had over all of My creation and had BROKEN IT. I turned death into something GOOD! It now represented LIFE. When you believed in what I did, you became one of Mine. I marked you as my own and now it?s my love, not your good life, that will change you to live like one of Mine.

You know the hunger, the desire in your heart? I put it there so you would search for Me. Your husband is meant only to be your partner and to walk with you to give you companionship while you live on earth but he is not meant to fill you up. He can not. He is also searching like you.?

At that point I didn?t want to talk about my husband any more so He left it there.

Listen to the rest of the story:

?I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you. I clothed you with an embroidered dress… I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments. I adorned you with jewelry?and a beautiful crown on your head?

During those days of cleansing and healing?honest face to face time with my Prince and a counselor He gave me, I began to believe that I was loved, that I had worth beyond what I had ever dreamed and that I was meant to live on this earth for a purpose!

And when I could begin to believe that, TO MY ASTONISHMENT, He removed another layer ? beneath the robe of white lay a robe of gold. The gold was His dream for me ? the dream that He had had since He had created me in my mother?s womb. The jewels and the gifts were my personality, my laugh, my passion for people, my love for music, the color of my eyes.

?You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. And your fame spread among the nations because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect??

After the healing was near completion, He turned me around in that quiet place we had lived in together and He pointed to the world outside the window.

?You, My Beloved, are so precious in My sight and I long to keep you here with Me forever. But not yet. There are others who are wounded and lost?they don?t realize that I am watching them, too, and waiting for them as I was for you.

I have given you gifts and a dream in your heart to help them discover why I have made them ? to assist Me as I release them to be who I meant them to be.

He turned me to once again look into my eyes.. ?Battle beside me against the harm my enemy does here. Your assignment as my princess is to reveal the robes of gold that others wear but don?t know yet??

And that?s when Cinderella left the throne room ? confident, her identify changed from seeing herself as black to seeing herself as gold. I go back there often and talk over what is going on with my Prince, sometimes for healing, sometimes for a crash course on what it means to be on God?s side. And He is always there waiting for me. As He is for you.

Oh, yes, the toughest thing He asked of me was to forgive my husband, to meet him half way in all that we needed to change. At first I could only be willing to be willing but, I didn?t want to miss out on a miracle and I gave it the tiniest of chances. We have been back together for 3 years now and it is a marriage I never thought I would have ? not perfect but it no longer needs to be.

I find my perfection in my Prince. And now, I work together with Him to free others.

Bernice Lupo is a Life Energy Coach, author, speaker and trainer. Her life purpose is to inspire others to discover and live out the adventure of their God given personal design - the gold of who they are. Her highly acclaimed GOLD Life Performance System has assisted many in finding freedom and a newly energized love for living. Tap into this incredible resource at http://www.goldrefined.com.

This article may be used in its entirety but the one condition I ask is that the information in this bio be included. Thank you.

Until now, men have considered the idea of wearing something other than pants or long shorts in public to be nothing less than a sacrilege against humanity. Although, throughout history, the concept of men wearing skirted garments was all too common. After all, pants were not widely used by any society more than three hundred years ago. - Pants were originally an invention to make it easier to ride a horse. The idea stuck, and the two-legged garment became standard apparel for working men to stave off cold and abrasion.

At the onset of the industrial age, Levi’s were probably the most popular mass-produced garment made for men. Sewn of heavy canvas, Levi’s jeans were designed to stave of the scrapes of workman’s toil. The political rise of the working class in the 1800’s transformed the workman’s attire into a symbol of raw power against the pompous and flagrantly dressed gentile statesman at the polar ends of the political and fashion spectrum. The power struggle of the working class has since grayed into the history books. So many men today live comfortable lives transporting themselves from their cozy homes, to their climaxed controlled cars, and into their environmentally shielded workspaces. Their female counterparts, transgressed long ago into the once male-dominated career lifestyle, are comfortably donning non-bifurcated garments as they go off to work and play.

The idea of men wearing skirts in today’s sex polarized society is a hot subject in certain corners of the Internet. Is it cross-dressing or is it the reemergence of an old-world fashion trend? - The topic is frequently debated in various Internet discussion groups and forums. For the most part, there is relatively widespread interest and at least moderate acceptance of the ‘men wearing skirts’ idea in one form or another.

It seems that many men are rediscovering the comfort and practicality of the skirt. (Men’s skirts are often referred to as kilts, sarongs or pareos for those who are fearful to associate the word “skirt” with men. - Get over it, it’s just a word). When you step back and take an objective look at things, the idea of restricting such a broad class of garment design to women seems a bit absurd. - Especially when you consider the anatomical configuration of the male species - “The three-legged pant just didn’t take off like it should have”. Skirt style garments are unarguably the least encumbering configuration of lower-body apparel that men could wear. It’s more than a style statement according to some doctors, loose non-restrictive clothing can help men live healthier and reproduce easier.

The indisputable fact about skirts is that they are extremely comfortable to wear for both men and women. If one follows the cardinal rule of design; “form follows function”, then it is obvious that the idea of restricting men from wearing skirts today is largely a fashion argument. Just as the idea of women wearing pant’s can equally be argued as fashion in most casual living situations.

In other parts of the world such as the South Pacific, Indonesia, Africa, Middle East, India, and the Philippians it is common to see men wearing skirts and other non-bifurcated garments. Certain cultures like Scotland and Greece maintain kilts and men’s style skirts as formal military attire. After many brief showings on the runways of Paris and Milan over the last couple of decades, it seams that the men’s skirt trend is starting to stick. The main reason for hesitance over the years is the overwhelming fear by most men for being identified as homosexual. However, subculture stigma seams to be having a diminishing influence on the emerging men’s skirt market for heterosexual males. The trend is not about feminine skirts for men but rather masculine skirt designs that are made for the male body shape.

Skirts made for men are appearing in a wide range of social circles from hikers and runners to carpenters and artists. Currently, the most common skirt configuration worn by men is a modern adaptation of the Scottish kilt. Previously relegated to traditional dress, the kilt has seen a recent rise in popularity beyond the borders of its Scottish heritage. (A kilt is a special type of pleated skirt that wraps around the waist and has an overlapping front.) A number of manufacturers are now offering modern kilts for men. Companies like Utilikilt, Amerikilt and Union Kilt have taken and old idea and revitalized it with heavy-duty construction complete with cargo pockets and tool holders. Other companies such as JDEZ offer lightweight cargo sarongs, and hiking skirts that convert to shorts for warm weather recreation. And Macabi Skirt, who offers a cleaver unisex skirt for backpackers and travelers. While other companies, like Men-in-Time and AMOK, make high-fashion masculine long skirts for men.

The idea of skirts made for men is both a new and old concept. While probably a long ways from going mainstream, mens skirts, kilts, sarongs and the like are probably going to continue to increase in popularity.

Jay Dezelic is a fashion designer for http://www.jdez.com - a manufacturer of unique and comfortable informal wear for men and women. Jay is also fashion writer for http://www.justchange.net - an ezine focused on helping people make positive changes in their lives. Additionally, Jay is a freelance fashion model who’s unique portfolio could be seen at http://www.jdez.com/models/jaydezelic.

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