Sticks & Poles - A Ski History

But some skiers did not like to lean on the “staff” as Richardson found in Sir Arthur De Capel Brooke’s A Winter in Lappland and Sweden, 1827, wherein he (Brooke) ‘describes the method of using the stick, but significantly adds: “The most skilful do not often make use of the staff, and are above being indebted to it for assistance.” ‘ ¹¹