Zpacks Minimalist Trekking Pole

Simple design, very lightweight, great looking. Feels very solid for how light it is.

Great weight (extremely light) and easy to adjust. Also, grips are a bit smaller (which are better for my female hands) and they’re not the typical cork material, which is great. They are what I was hoping for!

Zpacks Minmalist Trekking Poles

I really enjoy how light weight these poles are. I had a problem with one of them, the tip wore off about 200 miles in to a 600 mile AT section. The tip did not survive Pennsylvania, but the pole was still very usable without it. At a Hostel just before starting the Whites, a manager offered to replace the tip for me with a replacement I bought at the outfitters. He forcefully banged on the pole section to get the old tip off, the whole tip section broke off instead. He found a similar fiber carbon section in the spare parts box and replaced the broken tip with it. 3 days later while rock hopping a stream that section broke off leaving me with wet feet, a shorter, but usable pole with a broken, open end I shoved a round stick into. The next day, again at a high water wading creek crossing the whole lower section, including the tightening bracket just floated away. I was down to one pole for the next several miles. Back at another hostel I was showing a friend my half pole when another hiker, who was unexpectedly leaving the trail, said "take my poles, I don't need them anymore". Wow. He gave me a set of heavier carbon fiber poles that servered my well for the last several days of my 600 miles hiking. Now I need to order a replacement section for my zpack poles because I love how well they did until they were mishandled.