Originally Posted By Rick_D
Have some experience with an Easton tent with CF poles and no failures to date (and not expecting any). They save a LOT of weight, too.

Have also used CF trekking poles for at least five years and no failures there, either.

Since carbon fiber can be made so vastly many ways, it's of little use to generalize. If a certain brand has anecdotal history of failure, then I'd take note. We've all seen broken aluminum poles but there's no rush to steel.

Cheers,


You can also have different quality aluminum poles. Manufacturers can change wall thickness and aluminum allows. Incidentally, watch out for 6061 aluminum tent stakes. The MSR groundhog is made from a 7000 series aluminum, and so is the REI clone. Coghlan just came out with a copy as well, but it is made from 6061. I bought a bunch of the Coghlans and the scouts keep bending them, in soft dirt. They have never bent the REI clones.
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