Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network.

As always, we are coming to you from our home base, an elevation hotel in Mount Crested

Bute. My name is Luke Kappa. I am the managing editor at Blister, and you can check out everything

we're doing and reviewing over at blister managing editor at Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and

reviewing over at BlisterReview.com. There, you can read all of our latest reviews, listen to all of our

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our upcoming Blister Summit, 24, and a whole lot more.

Now, today, we are following up last week's episode where we looked back at

2023's Gear of the Year, and now we're looking forward at 2024.

We're going to attempt to predict what's in and what's out, what trends will be revived,

what categories will see the most change,

and some various other tangents that you've probably come to expect at this point.

Joining me in today's trend forecasting mission are Kara Williard, Justin Bob, and Jonathan Ellsworth.

Speaking of forecasting, this episode of Gear 30 is presented by OpenSnow, which is our favorite weather app.

Now, throughout the winter, I check OpenSnow multiple times a day, whether it's because

I want to see if there's any fresh snow on the horizon, or I want to see what temperature

it's going to be exactly 27 hours from now, or I want to see how much cloud cover there will be at

2 p.m. in three days because we're planning a photo shoot. Whatever it is, I use it all the time.

I also absolutely love for the iPhone users out there. OpenSnow now has a widget you can put on

your home screen and I have basically hated every single widget I've ever used. That is by far my favorite one.

Anyway, if you haven't done so already, you can try OpenSnow's full range of features for yourself

by heading over to openSnow.com slash blister. By doing so, you can test drive all of their best

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