The Red Eft Custom Hiking Sticks

OUR STORY
My friend Kenneth Lowe had invited us to his home to celebrate with his wife who just graduated from AMC mountain school. So instead of the usual gift of a bottle of wine we would bring to party, I would bring a hiking stick to commemorate the occasion. Earlier in the week, we had pulled a fairly straight birch stick out of a beaver dam in Nashua. It was a little chewed up but sturdy

enough for a hike in any of the white mountains 4000 foot peaks. Before I could present it, we sanded it down and I wrote this poem on it :
SPIRIT STICK
This instrument only goes forward and only points to the sun. This machine strengthens me when I am weak and gives me balance should I stumble. This Birch performs only noble acts, like cooling the forest floor, creating air and splitting seas. This implement will protect us from grievous jackals, wild dogs and all forms of facism. Like the shepherd’s staff, it comforts me. May the holder of this apparatus have love in their heart, and a song of their soul. Your name is written in the book of life. Ken’s wife loved the stick, as did many of his guests. After that day, I started making these sticks as gifts for all occasions. And now they come with words carved and in different themes and images. Today, people use these sticks as ornaments as well as for walking. It is truly a gift that will last forever. We can put your philosophy, or whatever has meaning to you, on a piece of nature to accompany you on your journey through life. We try to put the type of wood it is as well as where the stick was found. We are hikers so we come across our fair share of winter blowdown. Each stick has its own story. EXAMPLES:
SPIRIT STICK
NEW HAMPSHIRE’S 48 FOUR THOUSAND FOOTERS
APPALACHIAN TRAIL
KANCAMAGUS SCENIC HIGHWAY
23RD PSALM
BOY SCOUT STICK
QUOTATIONS
SPIRIT HIKE
JACKSON HOLE (exclusive supplier to the Mountain Man Toy Shop in Jackson Hole, WY)
HIKING QUOTES
WEAR SUNSCREEN
FAMILY
MT WASHINGTON STICK
PRESIDENTIALS
ETC. – the possibilities are endless