Since November 1999, I've been making my own hiking sticks. I harvest them myself, some under spectacular conditions. I keep one per state or province that I visit. If I bring home more than that, the excess must be disposed of. I like to give sticks away, but all my friends have sticks by now. So now I sell them.
Stockpile of sticks now available!
- Scott Eiler
Order via e-mail. Pay via PayPal.
Currently available for sale. |
| # | Length | Type of Wood | Brush / Deadwood | Location Harvested | Features | Narrative |
| 1 | 2'5" | Cedar | Deadwood | Colbert's Ferry, AL | Twine grip | From a rest stop alongside the Natchez Trace Parkway. Ideal size and weight for children! |
| 2 | 3'6" | Ash | Deadwood | Val-Kill Cottage, Hyde Park, NY | Crutch tip | From the woods at the former summer cottage of Eleanor Roosevelt. |
| 3 | 3'6" | Ash | Deadwood | South Lansing, MI | Bark grip | Found in a low-income housing complex. |
| 4 | 4'2" | Poplar | Brushwood | Portage, MI | Bark grip | From alongside a community walking trail. |
| 5 | 4'10" | Oak | Deadwood | Voldumar Woods, Eaton County, MI | Bark grip | From alongside a hiking trail. |
| 6 | 4'8" | Poplar | Deadwood | Garden of the Five Senses, North Port, FL | Bark grip | Found by a walking trail. |
| 7 | 5'2" | Pine | Deadwood | Smoky Mountain National Park near Gatlinburg, TN | Twine grip | Found across a hiking trail. This is unusual in the Smoky Mountains, because hikers and professional stickmakers scavenge all the fallen wood they can. |
| 8 | 5'0" | Cedar | Brushwood | Goodwill Industries, Nashville, TN | Bark grip | Found on the warehouse grounds. |
| 9 | 4'1" | Beech | Brushwood | St. Cecilia Motherhouse and Novitiate, Nashville, TN | Decoration made of palm fronds used by the Downtown Presbyterian Church of Nashville, TN on Palm Sunday 2009. Reuse of these fronds is encouraged by Church custom. | This stick and two others I swiped from the nuns; Their henchmen with chainsaws had stacked them for fun! More |
| 10 | 3'8" | Beech | Brushwood | St. Cecilia Motherhouse and Novitiate, Nashville, TN | Bark grip | This nunnery occupies several acres, and provided several sticks when the gardeners did spring cleaning in 2009. More. |
| 11 | 3'6" | Maple | Brushwood | St. Cecilia Motherhouse and Novitiate, Nashville, TN | Bark grip | St. Cecilia's was founded as a girls' school in 1862. Its access road shows up on a map of the Battle of Nashville 1864. |
| 12 | 4'6" | Rosewood | Brushwood | St. Cecilia Motherhouse and Novitiate, Nashville, TN | Crutch tip, Mount LeConte trail badge | Another stick from the nunnery. This stick has hiked Mount LeConte, the highest vertical hike in the Appalachian Mountains. |
| 13 | 4'5" | Beech | Brushwood | Palatine, IL | Bark grip | Harvested in autumn 2006. Used as a winter walking stick during later trips to Chicago. |
| 14 | 3'7" | Willow | Brushwood | Massac County Courthouse, Metropolis, IL | Bark grip | Harvested in February 2009, when downed trees were common through the reason. That same day, the stick propped up a cardboard phone booth against high winds in the Superman Museum. |
| 15 | 4'0" | Hickory | Brushwood | Indianpolis, IN | Bark grip | Harvested in July 2009, near a rental car operation. |
No live trees were harmed in this exploitation of the Earth's good resources.