Ice poles are essential tools for testing ice. They also help you keep your momentum crossing a soft surface, or snow-covered ice, or into a headwind. You can use them to keep your balance while side-stepping across an open crack or a pressure ridge. And they work as crutches if you break a skate or lose a skate under the ice. Lastly, in a rescue operation you can use them to determine how closely you can approach a victim who has fallen into a hole in the ice. Before you cross a boundary where the ice changes color or texture, stop and test the ice with your ice pole. Otherwise, you may enter too thin ice. A functioning ice pole will pierce several centimeters of ice in a single blow; this way you can quickly determine if the ice will hold or fail.The ice poles from Skyllermarks are made with strong, lightweight aluminum tubes and tips of hardened steel, keeping their sharpness over time.Both ice poles in this pair are identical, and can also be comfortably used for pushing or for stability on uneven ice. The special clips allow the two poles to be attached together.Only sold in pairs. Color choices are blue, black, and orange.Blue poles come with wide tips. Black poles and orange poles have narrow tips.Both work excellently and the choice is highly personal. What is important is that you get to know your own ice pole. Three different lengths of poles are available. If you wish yours to be even shorter, it is possible to remove the handles and cut them down yourself.
