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

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

While today, Dr. Sean Humbert is back to provide an viewing over at blisterreview.com.

While today, Dr. Sean Humbert is back to provide an update on our Blister Lab SkiFlex project and to explain how and why ski boots are becoming an integral part of this project, too.

And for those of you who are new to these parts, well, Blister Labs is a collaboration we

launched two years ago between Blister, Western Colorado University in Gunnison, Colorado,

and C.U. Boulder.

And we've got some pretty cool news here.

For those of you who are going to be coming to our Blister Summit here in Mount Crested

Butte, Colorado.

That kicks off this Sunday afternoon, February 4th through the 8th.

Well, we are going to be continuing the conversation that you are about to listen to right now at our summit.

And we are going to be inviting Moment Ski's CEO Luke Jacobson and Atomic SkiBoots product manager Matt Manzer to chop it up with Sean and me on our Blister Labs panel

session which is taking place Wednesday, February 7th at 5 p.m. at the summit. And so we'll have

Luke and Matt offer their thoughts on the potential and the challenges of this very project.

And of course, those in the audience will also have an opportunity to ask their own questions

and to check out the system that we are referencing in this conversation.

So yeah, that is all taking place at our Blister Summit,

which is this Sunday, February 4th through the 8th here in Mount Crested Butte, and the epicenter

of the event is Elevation Hotel, which is where our Blister headquarters are located.

This summit is shaping up to be another fantastic event,

with tons of inbound and backcountry gear to demo from brands like Forefront and On3P and Moment, Solomon, Rosignal, vocal, carve Vocal. Carve. Doiter. Deinistar. Fulsome. Glade. Islantic. Kessley.

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