Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network,

where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested Butte, Colorado.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you, of course, can check out everything we're doing and

reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Today, we are talking to two blister members who became friends through blister and

became friends of mine through blister.

And Boback and Lucas recently completed a ski touring hut trip

of the very famous, very classic, Ote Rout. And yes, apologies for my French accent.

Anyway, I have really been wanting to get the full trip report from Babak Fardzin and Lucas Friedly since they've wrapped up the trip,

and since these are two individuals who think long and hard about their gear, I decided to have

them here on Gear 30 to talk about their trip, talk about the gear they used, hear from them

what gear worked well and maybe what gear worked less

well, and along the way they both offer some pretty great advice for anybody thinking about

doing any type of multi-day ski touring trip, let alone anyone interested in the Otebrut

itself. And now I want to give a shout out to a few of our

Blister Plus members, that includes the heroes of today's episode, Babak and Lucas. And we've also got

new Blister Plus members, Mark from San Jose, California, Ed from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jeff from just down the road from us

in Gunnison, Colorado, Todd and Andrew from Longmont, Colorado. And then finally for today, I'm very

happy to welcome our good friend Morgan, who lives right here in Crested Butte. So if you want to know why people

from Massachusetts to California to Switzerland are getting themselves covered with Blister Plus,

well, we will leave a link to Blister Plus in the show notes of this episode, and I promise

you it'll be worth your time to check it out.

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