Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Okay, once again, we are talking about Denali.

Last week, we heard about Sam Shaheen's Denali Expedition, and this week we are talking

with Andrew Alexander King, who was on Denali shortly after Sam was.

So in this conversation, Andrew is going to share with us his experience of Denali, and he talks about some of the gear he used.

And just before we dive in, I want to give you a heads up about our Blister recommended shop, Bentgate Mountaineering.

Now, DPS just released several limited edition skis, and they are all on sale at Bentgate.

That includes the DPS Powderworks Whaler 115 RPC, the Powderworks Lotus 124, several other new skis

and you can get discounts on DPS Phantom Glide treatments.

So all you have to do is head to Bentgate in Golden, Colorado, or visit their website at

bentgate.com to learn more.

And with that, let's get to our conversation with Andrew Alexander King.

Here we go.

All right.

Well, Andrew, welcome back, but this time on our Gear 30 podcast.

So I think we've now had you on our Blister podcast twice.

We're branching things out to Gear 30.

And we're going to talk about this little trip to Denali that you recently took.

Maybe my first question, how did this Denali trip come about?

How long have you been thinking about Denali and when did the

sort of planning for this really begin? So to be honest, like the planning started in

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