Theses poles are great for my weekly weekend walks up Mt Thomas and really like the use of gloves the poles clip into instead of straps. 1st weekend of use was last weekend and managed personal records both up and down the steep summit track using these poles with tramping boot and a metal frame pack on my back in under an hour up, 53:34 minutes and just under half hour going down , 29:44 going by Strava and has put me on top of their leaderboard of 154 who have recorded the summit track decent. Not bad for a 63yr old with help of hiking poles to take some stress off my legs on the climb and decent.