Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out all this stuff we're doing and reviewing at blisterreview.com.

Today we are making good on some past promises, so I sat down with Luke Hapa and Sam

Shaheen at our blister headquarters at elevation in Mount Crested Bute. We start by talking about

three skis that just missed the cut from earning a Best of award from us this year, and then we

turn to talk about a number of

new skis we've been getting on or are about to get on, including the Folsom Trophy, Rosignol Black

Ops, the head World Cup Rebel I Speed Pro, you're going to get to hear Sam gush about that one,

the Dina Star Proto, and the Moment Commander 98 and 101.8.

There's lots of stuff that we're really excited about here, so let's just go ahead and get right to it.

Gentlemen, here we are back at our blister headquarters at Elevation in Crestrested Butte and had some good skiing yesterday

and we get to go skiing again as soon as we are done with this podcast.

So it's going to be five minutes long.

Let's hurry up.

So we are going to try to keep this one moving along because as soon as we're done,

we are literally getting on the mountain

but we had mentioned that we would be doing sort of a bit of a part two follow up to the

podcast we did talking about our winter buyers guide and what went into that we did last

episode kind of do our well could be called most disappointing products. So we covered our

bases in the last episode on that front. But we are going to quickly talk about, I think,

just three, three skis that were sort of most painful to leave out of our best of awards.

So let's address that and we'll give you kind of our top three.

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