You mean like this?kepPNW wrote:Heh, when I let my trekking poles dangle on their straps, the wind blew them out nearly parallel to the ground. I wanted a picture of that, but don't think we got one.
(This "trekking pole anemometer" is courtesy of Round Top in the northern Sierra Nevada, 6/24/14. And for the record, that was a sustained wind, not a gust.)
Sometimes I think it'd be fun to bring a real anemometer along while hiking; I figure it was blowing about 40 mph below Ladd Glacier last Thursday, but I wish I knew for sure.