Mountain Town Economics 2.0, w/ Jason Blevins (Part 1)
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today, Colorado Sun co-founder, Jason Blevins, is back to give us the latest on Telluride reopening and the end of the ski patrol strike; we discuss recent developments in affordable housing in Steamboat Springs; we look at various ownership models of ski areas (including what’s happening at Eldora in Colorado); and we ask the big questions: what are the responsibilities of the owners of ski areas, and how do we create more sustainable — and more stable — relationships between ski areas and mountain towns?
Note: We Want to Hear From You!
We’d love for you to share with us the stories or topics you’d like us to cover next month on Reviewing the News; ask your most pressing mountain town advice questions, or offer your hot takes for us to rate. You can email those to us here.
RELATED LINKS:
BLISTER+ Questions: contact@blisterplus.com
Get Our 25/26 Winter Buyer’s Guide
Discounted Summit Registration for BLISTER+ Members
Non-Member Registration: Blister Summit 2026
Get Our Newsletter & Weekly Gear Giveaways
CHECK OUT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELS:
Blister Studios (our new channel)
Blister Review (our original channel)
TOPICS & TIMES:
Carv (1:17)
OpenSnow (2:07)
Snowbird (2:38)
Jason in Telluride Last Friday (4:16)
Ski Patrol’s Needs vs Needs of Other Locals (8:37)
Making Patrollers Town Employees? (19:28)
What Are the Responsibilities of a Ski Area Owner? (29:08)
Steamboat Springs Affordable Housing (35:04)
Various Models of Ski Area Ownership (39:22)
What’s Happening in Nederland, CO, w/ Eldora? (47:40)
What Else Should We Know? (50:18)
CHECK OUT OUR OTHER PODCASTS:
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister Podcast on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:13.7 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:17.7 | On our last Blister podcast, we talked with Jason Blevins, and today Jason is back because just over the past few days, we had some breaking news out of Telluride. |
| 0:30.1 | But what happened in Telluride definitely should not be viewed as just some isolated incident. |
| 0:36.9 | And so I asked Jason to come back on to give us an |
| 0:39.9 | update about Telluride from Telluride, where he has been posted up for several days. And what we |
| 0:47.3 | wanted to do was also use this as an opportunity to take a fresh look at some of the complexities |
| 0:53.2 | of Mountain town economics |
| 0:54.9 | and how we might make changes to make things in mountain towns more sustainable and stable. |
| 1:03.1 | So, yeah, this is an important one, and it will serve as part one of a refresh of our |
| 1:08.9 | Mountain Town Economics series that we will be rolling out on |
| 1:12.9 | the Blister podcast over the coming weeks and months. |
| 1:17.2 | This episode of the Blister podcast is presented by Carve, the digital ski coach with an |
| 1:22.7 | incredibly simple-to-use interface that will improve your ski technique and boost the amount of fun and |
| 1:30.6 | confidence that you have on the hill. Now, I just learned this past week that one of my best |
| 1:37.9 | friends in the world, we've been friends since freshman year of college, while less purchased |
| 1:43.8 | carve last season, and while I have no idea why he |
| 1:47.8 | didn't tell me this any sooner, it was cool in the past few days to hear from Les about how much |
| 1:54.1 | carve has helped him improve his skiing and his enjoyment of skiing even more. |
| 2:07.0 | So check out Carve for yourself at get carvec-c-arv.com. |
| 2:10.6 | This episode is also presented by OpenSnow, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BLISTER, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BLISTER and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

