Who would have thought that walking around town with a couple of sticks would be such fun? We certainly didn't, but just for kicks we took an intro lesson in Nordic walking. Lesson? Yeah, we who think we know everything about the Pacific Northwest had a lesson. That's all it took - one hour with a smart instructor and a couple of Nordic walking poles. We had to have those Lekis! We've been poling at least 3 miles a day, rain or shine, ever since. We even wrote a story about it and took a bunch of pictures. It's at: http://www.highonadventure.com/Hoa08jun/Steve/Nortic.htm Steve