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people have been using walking sticks since for fucking ever
hiking poles are just the technical evolution of that old concept, there is nothing wrong with them except that they make you look like a dork
but if you have a problem with that you can still use a self made walking stick and look like a different dork like me
people who insist on this whole 'oh a true outdoorsman would not use this or that' are literal gear nazis who masturbate at night over their bark river knife dressed in milsurp shoving a nugget up their ass