Hey everybody, welcome to this special Valentine's edition of 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, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything.

We're doing and reviewing over at Blister Review.com.

Today, we are talking about love and starting companies with your significant other

and drugs and material science and ski construction. More specifically,

we're going to be talking about graphene and why you might soon be hearing more about

graphene in skis in the near future. Our guests today are Haley and Kevin Keith, the founder of mito materials, and you're

going to hear them talk about their journey into the ski industry, the unique properties of their

functionalized graphene material, and it turns out you aren't going to just have to take

their word about graphene because, as you'll

hear, at our Blister Summit, you are going to have the opportunity to test skis that are the same

with the only difference being that one pair of skis has graphene in it and the other does not.

So yeah, this is very proper A-B testing, the kind that we like to do here at Blister. And if you come to the Blister Summit, February 23rd through the 27th,

here in Mount Crested Butte, well, you are going to be able to do this A-Bing and judge for yourself all these different claims that Haley and Kevin are going to be able to do this a being and judge for yourself all these different

claims that Haley and Kevin are going to be telling us about today. Oh, and of course, right on time,

we've got a couple of feet of snow that's about to hit Crested Butte, which is going to have the

ski area and the backcountry in really good shape.

So click the link to the Blister Summit in the show notes of this episode to learn more and to get

yourself signed up. This episode of Gear 30 is presented by Carve. If you are serious about skiing,

you know that better skiers have more fun.

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