New Skis, Tight Pants, & Farm Animal Analogies
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Luke Koppa, Kristin Sinnott, and Jonathan Ellsworth discuss some of the new skis, boots and apparel they’ve been testing. We also discuss what skis we prefer for off-piste, icy conditions; the merits of slim fit ski pants; which ski boots are best described as “donkeys”; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- K2 Reckoner 102, 112, 122 (3:00)
- K2 Reckoners vs. K2 Mindbenders (6:00)
- Nordica Santa Ana 93 & 98 (8:00)
- Blizzard Cochise 106 (13:42)
- Dynastar M-Free 108 (20:40)
- Rossignol Black Ops Rallybird Ti & non-Ti (25:18)
- Ski pant fit: slim vs. baggy (29:26)
- WNDR Intention 110 (35:53)
- Arc'teryx Incendia One-Piece (38:25)
- Hawx Ultra 130S; Hawx Ultra XTD 130; Full Tilt (40:32)
- Hawx Prime XTD 130 (43:10)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're |
| 0:15.8 | doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:21.0 | Now, before we get started, I want to give you an update on our |
| 0:24.5 | Telemark video project, where Lou Kappa and Sam Shaheen and I |
| 0:30.1 | will have to go get on telegear for the first time ever, |
| 0:34.4 | and then we will document it so that you can see exactly how terrible we are at |
| 0:39.1 | teleskiing. |
| 0:40.6 | Now, the way we set this up was that we said that we would get the gear and shoot the video |
| 0:45.2 | once we hit 250 ratings in iTunes or Apple Podcasts, whatever you want to call it, and as of |
| 0:52.7 | this recording, we have 217 ratings, so we just have |
| 0:57.7 | 33 ratings to go. So to the many thousands of you who listen to this fine program, but |
| 1:05.0 | have not yet left us a rating, well, I have a hunch that there are a bunch of people out there |
| 1:10.6 | who would really |
| 1:11.5 | like you to do so just so they can watch us definitely go make fools of ourselves trying to |
| 1:17.5 | telly. So yeah, take those 30 seconds, leave us a rating, and when we hit 250, let the games |
| 1:24.4 | begin. Okay, for our conversation today, I am talking with Luke Kappa and Kristen Sinat about some of the new gear that we've been getting time on. |
| 1:34.6 | We recorded this conversation yesterday in our Blister headquarters, and Kristen's baby boy, Lyndon, was with us, and you might be surprised to learn. |
| 1:46.9 | Turns out it can be rather tricky trying to record a podcast with an 18-month-old baby in the room. |
| 1:53.3 | So you'll be hearing a bit from Lyndon in this conversation, |
| 1:57.2 | but Kristen was quite strategically exiting HQ and coming back into the room. |
| 2:02.9 | So the main reason I want to point this out is if you're wondering why you don't sometimes hear Kristen laughing at some of Luke's or my hilarious comments, |
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