ETSU Pride:

I agree completely with you about those Black Diamond's with the cork handles. Got mine on Cheap & Steep (over half off) after talking last summer with some veteran CMC hikers during some hikes -- an unusually large percentage of them had them. (I'd had Leki's for a dozen years.)

Best part: when you're in below-freezing temps they work. With their flip locks, they don't freeze up like the twisting kind like my original cheap pairs, or the more recent Leki's I had.

I'll be doin' a snowshoe using them in the Red Rocks area with it's new foot of snow tomorrow.