New hiking stick

Hiking sticks that are 6 feet long are hard to take on planes. We've done it before, but it was delayed as oversize luggage by a day. At that time, there was no problem with a day delay, but this time we'd like to avoid that. So, Mark came up with a way to "break" the hiking stick into 3 parts so we can pack it in our luggage.

Rather than do this to his real hiking stick, we started by purchasing a wooden rod at Home Depot. The 6 foot long piece was cut into 3 sections as shown here:



Then, Mark simply drilled holes in the ends, attached a threaded rod into one side, and voila, we had a wood hiking stick that can be taken apart and put back together.