Have you ever noticed how well a sheep or goat performs on steep ground ? Pacerpoles have reinvented the walking pole to imitate nature - with carbon fiber and anotomically shaped handles these are no ordinary pole and transform the way you walk on any terrain.
Traditional walking poles require constant adjusting of height depending on whether you are going up hill or down hill but have you ever noticed that sheep and mountain goats and chamoix have no such device for their legs yet scramble over the steepest terrain with no problem whatsoever. The vital difference between those animals and us humans that we are biped ( two legged) creatures and naturally less stable.
Pacerpoles have approached the engineering of walking poles from a completely difference perspective: instead of simply providing an (albeit sophisticated) shepherds crook to reduce pressue on the knees or requiring large arm movements which actually requires additional calories (a 'feature' developed to the extreme in the Nordic Walking poles as an exercise); Pacerpoles instead help convert the human form into a quadraped and impart some of the grace of our fourlegged friends to us.
So different is the movement with the Pacer Poles that they come only in pairs and with with specific instructions for use but you'll quickly find your feet (sic!) and be marching off into the wilderness like an antelope.
