Blister Summit ‘26 Preview, Big Announcements, & Reviewer Reports
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Monoskis! Snowblades! Price Drops! Jonathan talks with Luke Koppa and Kristin Sinnott about some big announcements about our upcoming Blister Summit, and Otto Solberg joins us to give an up-to-date conditions report from the Bird. We also talk about the great-looking forecast, and we go through some of the gear we’re most excited to get on — and get you on.
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Salomon and Kastle (42:20)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network, |
| 0:09.0 | where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested, |
| 0:14.3 | Butte, Colorado. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister and you, as always, can check out everything we're doing and |
| 0:22.9 | reviewing over at blisterreview.com and over on our YouTube channels, Blister Review and |
| 0:30.3 | Blister Studios. Okay, we've got a really fun one for you here today. We kick things off by getting a real-time report from |
| 0:41.8 | Snowbird about the present conditions. And we get that from Otto Solberg, who has been a friend of |
| 0:48.6 | ours for years. And as you'll hear, there's one very specific reason why I'm a very big fan of Otto. |
| 0:56.0 | But spoiler alert here, the bird is skiing and riding great right now. |
| 1:01.2 | Also, there's an incredible forecast where we are now up to nearly three feet of snow |
| 1:09.8 | that is being forecasted to be coming in over the next week |
| 1:13.7 | or two, which is to say, who knows what conditions will actually be like for our blister |
| 1:19.7 | summit? |
| 1:20.5 | But worst case, we are going to have excellent spring conditions. |
| 1:24.9 | And I mean, best case is getting crazier by the day as the forecast keeps |
| 1:31.1 | looking better and better. Anyway, you're going to hear from Otto on that front. And then some big |
| 1:36.9 | news for our blister summit. We want to make it possible for every single one of you who would |
| 1:43.9 | like to be at the summit to |
| 1:45.8 | be at the summit. So we are dropping the rate to $100 for full summit access for four |
| 1:55.2 | and a half days. That is going to only be available, of course, while we still have spaces available, but we |
| 2:02.9 | really want to make this an incredible end of the season celebration and party. |
| 2:09.3 | If you've been on the fence or if you just haven't gotten around to signing up yet, while |
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