I’ve been using Black Diamond Alpine CF poles forever but never had any with shocks. After repairing frayed wrist straps and replacing carbide tips for a while a flicklock finally broke. That can be replaced but I simply bought new poles and the wrist straps and the flicklocks are a new and much better design. Mine have always been super easy and intuitive to take apart but then they don’t have shocks. Good luck with yours. Best poles ever.


Edited by Arizona (03/21/21 04:10 PM)