This last fact blew my mind! 🤯 The newest research about using poles while hiking (yes! there is research!) has to do with calorie consumption. It turns out that using poles has been shown to increase calorie use by our body by over 20%. BUT, the super interesting thing they found in this same study was that participants didn’t think they were working any harder. 🙉 On an uphill, 20% is a really big number. The takeaway here is that bringing poles on the trail might mean a small increase…