Blister Summit Recap & New Ski Reviews
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Luka Koppa, Sascha Anastas, Kara Williard, and Jonathan Ellsworth offer a bit of a recap of our inaugural Blister Summit in Mt. Crested Butte, then discuss a number of skis from 4FRNT, Rossignol, Wagner Custom Skis, Dynastar, Icelantic Skis, WNDR Alpine, and Folsom Custom Skis that we spent time on at the Summit.
TOPICS & TIMES
- Blister Summit Recap (00:42)
- 4FRNT MSP 99, 107, & MSP CC (13:50)
- The new 4FRNT Hoji (17:19)
- Dynastar MFree 108 - 182 vs 192 cm lengths (23:09)
- Rossignol Rallybird TI (27:26)
- Rossi Soul 7 vs Rallybird (29:10)
- Rossi Sender vs Sender TI (32:34)
- Wagner Skis’ custom ‘Blister Summit’ skis (36:49)
- WNDR Alpine Vital 100 & Intention 110 (45:50)
- Iclenatic Nia Pro (54:45)
- Folsom Cash 106 & Folsom Primary 104 (57:16)
- What We’re Celebrating (1:09:19)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everybody, and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing, |
| 0:15.7 | plus all of our other podcasts over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:22.6 | Okay, today we've got two things on the agenda. |
| 0:25.8 | First, we are going to be doing a bit of a recap of the Blister Summit with our reviewers |
| 0:31.3 | Kara Williard and Sasha Anastis and Luke Kappa, and then we are going to be talking about a bunch of skis that we put |
| 0:40.0 | some initial time on at the summit. |
| 0:42.9 | Now, the launch of our Blister Summit really was a fantastic and a unique event, and I want to |
| 0:50.2 | say a huge thank you to all the many, many people and companies who provided help and support with this initial summit. |
| 0:59.9 | We very literally couldn't have done it without you, and I am looking forward to getting to meet up with each of you and raising a glass with you sometime soon. |
| 1:10.6 | Now, I also want to give a shout out and say thank you to Irwin Guides. |
| 1:15.7 | You were phenomenal Blister Summit partners, all the summit attendees, and the folks from |
| 1:21.9 | various brands who you took out into the backcountry were seriously just gushing about how great you all were. |
| 1:29.5 | Seriously, just raving about it the whole time. And so thank you so much for keeping everybody |
| 1:35.1 | safe and getting people out into the backcountry and we look forward to teaming up again |
| 1:41.2 | next year at the summit. Now, speaking of backcountry skiing, this episode of Gear 30 is presented by our |
| 1:48.3 | Blister recommended shop, Escape Route. |
| 1:51.3 | Escape Route is a backcountry gear shop located in Whistler, Canada, that specializes in ski |
| 1:57.5 | touring and mountaineering and climbing and hiking, and they even sell paddleboards in the summer. |
| 2:04.2 | Escape Route has been sharing their expertise for 30 years now, and you'll find that the staff knows and uses the gear they sell. |
| 2:14.4 | Escape Route also sells apparel from the likes of Arcterics and Mountain Hardware, DinaFit, Icebreaker, and others. |
| 2:21.3 | Plus, they offer boot fitting, transceiver updates, and tech services in the shop, regardless of where you bought the gear from. |
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