Biggest Ski Buying Mistakes + Ski Tuning, Ski Wax, & Ski Boots

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2023

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

What are some of the biggest mistakes skiers make when buying gear? And what do regular, recreational skiers & snowboarders need to know about ski tuning and waxing? Jonathan discusses these questions and more with Logan and Riley Boone of Boone Mountain Sports. They also talk about how they all met (it was in Austria), and Jonathan reveals the upcoming ‘Blister 90-Flex Challenge’.

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Blister Summit Update (1:50)

How / Where We All Met (8:09)

Intros: Logan, Riley, & Boone Mountain Sports (13:44)

Kombucha, Music Festivals, & Youth Programs (18:33)

Biggest Ski Buying Mistakes? (28:42)

The Blister ‘90-Flex Challenge’ (35:11)

Ski Tuning (51:00)

Waxing (1:08:35)

Crashes & Close Calls (1:13:50)

The Boone Mountain Sports Logo (1:23:30)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,
0:11.4	and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:20.1	Today, we are talking about ski tuning and ski wax and ski boots and the biggest mistakes
0:28.5	that skiers make when walking into a ski shop to buy gear.
0:34.8	And as you'll hear, we've got two guests with us today who are in a very, very
0:40.9	good position to weigh in on these things. We've got the Brothers Boone, that would be Logan
0:47.5	and Riley Boone, who are the owners of Boone Mountain Sports in Evergreen, Colorado.
0:55.4	Logan and Riley have been skiing their entire lives.
0:59.5	They grew up ski racing.
1:01.5	They also grew up working in their father's ski shop, which they now run,
1:07.5	and their obsession with ski tuning is one of the reasons why so many ski companies
1:14.5	send their skis to Boone Mountain Sports before sending those skis out to magazine tests
1:22.3	and the like. Logan and Riley are great and a lot of fun.
1:35.2	And as you'll hear in this episode, meeting these two goes down as one of my favorite stories ever for how I got introduced to anybody.
1:40.3	So we're going to talk about that story here.
1:42.6	Yeah.
1:44.5	It still stands.
1:46.1	We really had one hell of a memorable introduction.
1:50.4	Oh, and guess what?
1:51.9	Logan and Riley are going to be at our Blister Summit, which is happening February 4th
1:58.6	through the 8th in Mount Crested Butte.
2:01.6	So come to the Blister Summit and create your own memorable introduction to Logan and Riley.
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