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I heard that Black Diamond held a patent on that design but it ran out so other companies immediately started making flip lock.

Not unlike pharmaceutical products and generic brands.

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With those long skinny legs and long really skinny poles he has quite a ganglion appearance.

Well, I would probably take the "turkey legs" award when wearing shorts. :eek:

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)