McKenna Peterson on Ski Movies, Boats, & Hemingway’s Typewriter
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Last Friday, we published a GEAR:30 episode with McKenna Peterson, where we discuss her ski gear preferences; what piece of gear she’s still searching for; & more. Today, we dive into McKenna’s past and present to talk about her segment in the new Matchstick film, “The Stomping Grounds”; discuss some of the formative events of her life, and learn more about what makes this professional skier (and professional commercial fishing captain) tick.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- McKenna in CB (2:48)
- What’s the greatest ski film ever? (5:16)
- Which ski film influenced you the most? (5:58)
- The current Matchstick fim tour (6:51)
- McKenna & her mom (10:23)
- Growing up, racing, & skiing Sun Valley (12:27)
- Entering the extreme comp in Crested Butte (15:48)
- School (19:36)
- Fishing (24:29)
- Hemmingway’s Typewriter (29:29)
- McKenna & her dad (34:37)
- Boats (38:40)
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- This Week’s Gear Giveaway
- Gear Giveaway / Newsletter Signup
- Become a Blister Member / Get our new Buyer’s Guide
- Register for the 2022 Blister Summit
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:13.5 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:17.0 | Okay, so last Friday, we published a Gear 30 conversation with McKenna Peterson |
| 0:22.9 | to talk about some of her personal ski gear preferences. |
| 0:27.9 | And today, we are pushing the gear conversation aside, |
| 0:32.3 | and instead we are diving into McKenna's past and present, |
| 0:36.4 | to talk about her segment in the new MSP film, |
| 0:40.1 | to discuss some of the formative events of her life, |
| 0:43.6 | and to learn more about what makes this professional skier and professional commercial fishing captain tick. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, two things before we get going here. |
| 0:54.0 | Our new winter buyer's guide drops this week. tick. Okay, two things before we get going here. |
| 0:58.4 | Our new winter buyer's guide drops this week. |
| 1:04.0 | So if you'd like to be the first to receive a downloadable copy of the biggest and best winter buyer's guide in the world, then become a blister member because as a way to say |
| 1:09.9 | thank you to our blister members, |
| 1:12.3 | you will be seeing the guide first. The print edition of the guide will then be shipping out |
| 1:19.2 | and showing up a bit later, so become a blister member to get the new guide first, and to also |
| 1:26.4 | receive a bunch of exclusive deals on gear and to get |
| 1:30.6 | access to all of our flash reviews and deep dive reviews and to get our personalized gear |
| 1:37.6 | recommendations. You just send us an email and we then figure out with you the gear that we |
| 1:44.0 | believe will work best for you |
| 1:45.9 | and where and how you ski or bike. |
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