<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>Also, the walking sticks help with circulation in your hands. Several women I met would have problems with swelling in their hands. When you have stick to hold on to this cuts down on that problem tremendously. I don't think I could have made it throughout the first day across the pyrenees without my stick either. I was constantly stopping to lean on it because the alititude was getting to me. I'm from the coast in Texas and am not used to high altitudes.
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<BR>Heather</FONT></HTML>