As we all know, the Gossamer Gear poles are rather fragile. In my clumsyness I managed to break the lower section of one of my poles. Does anyone happen to have one sitting around they would like to go to a good home?

I posted earlier about my broken LT4 poles - I broke both lower sections on the same trip. What I did for a cheap and easy repair was to glue a length of 11mm aluminium tubing into each pole using two part resin glue.

I put a lot of weight onto my poles, especially downhill, but this year both poles survived 360 miles in the Sierra with no damage at all.

Broke my lower section while post holing the other day. I could not wait for Gossamer Gear to get these in stock again so I went to A golf store (Golfsmith) and bought a graphite shaft for $9.97. cut the shaft down (ended up cutting it shorter than whats in the picture). The LT4's are mostly straight with not taper. The golf shaft had a slight taper so I had to sand one end until it would fit. Epoxied it inside and it is now as good as new except for it being .4 oz heaver.