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

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Today, Marker unveiled their brand new Duke PT binding,

so Luke Kappa, Sam Shaheen, and I discuss this new binding

and where it fits with respect to the Shift MNC

and the Cast Touring System.

We also then discuss some big new changes at Gore, the new Gortex Pro versus

the North Face Future Light fabrics. We get into the truly appalling behavior of backcountry.com,

and then Luke talks about several new skis that he's already been getting time on, and I get things

started by talking about my new favorite thing. Now, before we dive in, we've got a couple

notes here. First, I want to let you know that everyone who pre-ordered the print edition

of our 1920 winner buyer's guide. All of those pre-ordered guides

shipped out on October 14th. So they have been sent. But one thing we've been told is that

these terrible wildfires that have been raging in California, these are causing some delays in the

shipping of the guide to parts of California and to Canada.

Now, we don't have more specific information than that, but if you are in California or Canada

and have yet to receive your print copy of the guide, please be patient. And if you can be patient,

no more, please send us an email. Now, if you've ordered the guide after the

pre-order period, we are shipping guides out every day and domestic orders are generally taking

two to three days to receive. And if you would still like to order a copy of the best

coffee table book out there, you can still do so at blisterreview.com, and we would love to send you a copy.

Okay, our second thing here, I want to ask all of you to check out the last two episodes

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