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What are you at? This is it: Hiking sticks

Richard Walsh is a retired teacher with a love of the outdoors and an interest in recycling who creates Balsama hiking sticks with salvaged tree branches.

Richard Walsh of Conception Bay South makes one-of-a-kind hiking sticks

Richard Walsh makes Balsama Hiking Sticks. (Heather Barrett/CBC)

Richard Walsh is a retired teacher with a love of the outdoors and an interest in recycling.

He creates his Balsama hiking sticks with tree branches salvaged from land being cleared for subdivisions.

Hiking sticks

9 years ago
Duration 0:55
Richard Walsh makes Balsama hiking sticks

This is the second Weekend AM feature of interesting projects people are doing in their spare time.

What are you at? Email us wam@cbc.ca  and tell us about your cool weekend project.