Wooden Hiking Sticks vs Telescoping Trekking Poles.

Hiking sticks, trekking poles, or whatever you want to call them, there seem to be more and mroe hikers these days packing one or two telescoping poles with them when they hit the trails.

Yes, even I bought a cheap pair from MEC a coupla years back. I have to say it's handy to be able to close down my poles to make them small enough to put inside my backpack when I'm not using them, or when I'm travelling.

If you're looking for a cool looking old-school hiking pole and don't care about size/weight/trends, try wooden hiking sticks at

http://www.sticksite.com/

What's your preference? Old school wood or new school poles?