Howdy, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Year 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. My name is Luke Kappa. I am the managing editor at Blister, and I'm coming to you from our home base, an elevation hotel in Crested Butte, Colorado. As always, you can check out everything we are doing and reviewing over at blister

review.com. Now, today we are diving deep into ski touring apparel, and why hitting the

skin track on your touring setup or splitboard demands very different things from your clothing

versus riding lifts at the resort. Then we go into the specifics of how and why one company has gone about creating their

first ever collection of apparel and designed it specifically for human-powered skiing

and snowboarding.

My guest today is Kyle Siegel, the founder of Rade, who we last talked to a couple years ago

back on episode 281 of Deer 30,

when Raid was launching their first ever product.

Since then, we've been seeing Raid packs and running belts pop up everywhere from the summit

of Everest to a whole bunch of trail running race podiums.

However, up until a few weeks ago, they'd only made

one piece of winter clothing. Now they've launched their four-piece tour tech kit, and I was

extremely intrigued, and honestly, a bit skeptical, as soon as I put eyes on the specs and the things

they were claiming about it. So while we will be doing our own testing of

these pieces in the very near future, I was super excited to get the full story behind them. Now,

Kyle is someone who's very focused on the details of all the gear we use in the mountains,

and he's someone who's happy to discuss those details in depth, so he is a great fit for

Gear 30.

Together we go over how and why touring apparel needs to do different things than what

you'd wear at the resort, why so many touring pieces still end up being very similar to

the resort ones, the holes in the market that Kyle was aiming to

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