Our 23/24 BLISTER Winter Buyer’s Guide Recap

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Ellsworth sat down with Kara Williard, Dylan Wood, Justin Bobb, and Luke Koppa to debrief about our 2023-2024 Winter Buyer’s Guide, discuss what changed this year (and more importantly, what has *not* changed), go over some trends, and more.

Along the way, we dole out our unofficial “RIP,” “Good Riddance,” and new “Best Glow-Up” awards; talk about what we’re most excited to get on this season; and Jonathan debates whether Luke isn’t even invited to his funeral, or if he’ll be managing the whole thing…

TOPICS & TIMES:

What’s New, What’s Different, & What’s the Same (5:34)

Most Notable Trends (14:13)

RIP Awards (20:21)

Good Riddance Awards (30:20)

Our Blister ‘Best Of’ Section (36:12)

How to get the Guide (56:25)

Snowboarding Talk w/ Jbobb (59:55)

Crashes & Close Calls (1:18:25)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:10.0	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:16.2	blisterreview.com.
0:19.6	Today, we've got our annual Winter Buyers Guide Recap episode of Gear 30,
0:26.0	and so today we are talking about our big new 2324 winter buyers guide
0:32.1	that hopefully most of you have seen by now, but if you haven't, and if you are the sort who likes
0:40.2	buyers guide, well, dear Lord, folks, you need to check this one out. And we are going to make the
0:47.5	case for why you should check this one out. So in this conversation, I am joined by Luke
0:53.4	Kappa, Kara Williard, and Dylan Wood,
0:57.0	and we're going to talk about what's new and what's different about our latest buyer's guide,
1:02.9	but also, and really importantly, what is the same about our buyer's guide? Spoiler alert,
1:10.2	what is the same about our guide is actually very
1:13.4	different from virtually every other buyer's guide out there. Fun fact, for those of you who
1:19.3	didn't know that. I also talk with Luke and Kara and Dylan about some of the most notable
1:26.3	trends that we saw putting together this guide.
1:29.3	We do our Rest in Peace Awards.
1:32.9	It's a really sad addition for me this year.
1:35.3	But then we also do our Good Riddance award,
1:38.5	because there are a couple of pieces of gear that we're not sad at all,
1:43.1	that those are going away. We also have Dylan Wood
1:47.1	basically invent a new award in this conversation, the Blister Glow Up Award, so stay tuned for that.
1:56.5	And then as you will hear me say, we were supposed to be joined by the strikingly handsome
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