Hey, everybody, welcome to another edition of Luke and Jonathan sit in Blister headquarters

and talk about a diverse range of things, aka Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth. You're about to hear from Luke Kappa,

and we normally at this point tell you that you can check out everything else that we have

going on over at blisterreview.com. Look at that, Luke. I've been gone for a while. Still have it.

I feel like I still got it. Anyway, good to be back in Crested Butte and back here in Blister HQ,

because man, I have been putting some miles and yeah, kind of was in the like hardly ever

sleeping in the same place for more than like, definitely not more than like two nights in a row.

That's kind of been my MO almost for like a month

about anyway some pretty great trips uh and experiences we're going to be talking a bit about that on

this luke how are you doing pretty well we're now it actually feels like like fully into summer mode

in CB um i've been trying to get to the post office for like a week.

And every time I get down there, they're either randomly closed or the main street is so busy that

I just give up and go to the grocery store, get the essentials and head back to safety up

the mountain where there aren't quite as many people.

It's also like I could not believe when I got back here how incredibly green it is,

which kind of makes sense because it's sort of the Pacific Northwest here now.

Yeah, if the Pacific Northwest, it rained for like an hour every afternoon. But yeah, it has been very nice in that regard. Super green, but I'm in on the rain thing, actually. I know you've been

sad because it's messing up your riding schedule. I love rain when it's happening, especially

midweek from nine to five when it is threatening thunderstorms all day on a weekend day.

I'm less stoked on it.

But yeah, overall, big fan, like in terms of like fire danger, but also just it looks really good.

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