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A lot of my climber friends are skiers too, and so this month I'm doing an episode on a backcountry skiing

incident. I was talking to my friend Josh about the show and he asked if he can

give my listeners a special offer. Josh runs an online ski store called big ski sale.com. What do you

have for us Josh? Hi Ashley yeah thanks for the opportunity. I've been

listening to the sharp end here since the very beginning and I think it's just such an amazing service to the climbing world

Like you I know a lot of climbers who also ski so when I heard that this episode was going to be about skiing I was

inspired to contribute to the skiers in your audience by hooking them up with the

discount code to ski gear on my website I I started big ski sale.com in 2006. It's a boutique style

ski shop that focuses on mid to high-end ski equipment and I just try to give all my customers as much

personal attention as possible which is actually pretty easy because I'm my

only employee. Yeah so all sharpened listeners out there can take an extra 10% off my current sale prices.

So everything's already on sale, but you can take 10% extra.

I ship for free and we've got it all. Skis, boots, you name it.

So just type in the sharp end as your coupon code at the

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