Don't ask me why but after being in tree 4hrs at 16 deg. yesterday, these sticks came to mind as I began my climb down after sunset. "Would I want to be using Styx right now? To be holding on to them climbing down from ~20' feeling a whole lot less limber and twice my weight from the cold, bulky size13's, w/snow falling on carbon sticks?".....Nope. No friggin way. Even if I were to know the manufacturing process, the properties of the materials being used, and had watched that same particular set of 4 sticks being built, my brain would much rather me be standing and holding on to metal right now.
Maybe if I were 175lbs. and under 25, (which I haven't been since high school.) and using them early season. I don't see these in my future.