LEKI Mountain Trek Super Makalu AirErgo Long Poles (Pair)

List Price: $149.95
Category: Sports
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Equipment Details

• Strong, lightweight aluminum tubing with easy-lock system to securely fasten sections
• 2.6 to 4.6 reach accommodates most reaches
• Contoured ergometric thermo-foam grip and no-buckle wrist straps
• Soft Anti-shock Suspension System and carbide flex tips
• Lifetime warranty against shaft breakage

Sports reviews of LEKI Mountain Trek Super Makalu AirErgo Long Poles (Pair)

Customer Review: outstanding
Sport shop rating: 5 Stars

Description of LEKI Mountain Trek Super Makalu AirErgo Long Poles (Pair)

Specifications:

• Series: Mountain Trek
• Shaft: Aluminum 3-section / 19.8 ounces per pair
• Grip: Air Ergo Long with Positive Angle
• Strap: Auto Comfort Strap
• Finish: Ultra Sonic
• Basket: Performance Trek Basket
• Sizes: Adjusts from 80-140 centimeters
• Lifetime warranty against shaft breakage

About LEKI

LEKI, the world's leading manufacturer of ski, hiking and trekking poles, had its start in Kircheim, Germany as a hobby of its founder, Karl Lenhart, an airframe mechanic and avid skier. Lenhart believed aluminum would make a superior ski pole compared to the heavy steel models available in the late 1940's. After successfully creating lightweight poles for his friends, in 1954, the hobby became a full time business. LEKI originated the use of nylon webbing for straps and created plastic molded grips and baskets in place of metal and leather. Additionally, Lenhart developed an aluminum tempering process that produces pole shaft with incomparable strength, durability, and reliability.

In 1984, Klaus Lenhart, Karl's son, assumed leadership and shortly there after developed the first dual-component grip. He is also responsible for improving adjustable pole-locking technology and grip innovations such as the Trigger Click-In system and COR-TEC, a material made of real cork and latex. As the ski market continued to flourish, LEKI began manufacturing hiking poles primarily for European mountain guides. The concept of using two poles as means of relieving stress on knee joints and the lower back appealed to climbers who also saw benefits in performance and safety. LEKI poles eventually caught on with the general hiking and trekking population that recognized and appreciated the preventive health benefits as well as the climbing support and stabilizing effects. In 1990, LEKI USA was incorporated. The North American market has embraced the company's line of alpine, Nordic, back country, mountaineering, Nordic walking, and trekking poles. Like their European counterparts who have been loyal to LEKI for nearly five decades, North American outdoor enthusiasts know and appreciate LEKI quality and value.

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