Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network,

where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested Butte, Colorado.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything.

We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Well, as the title of this episode says, today I am laying out more fully my thoughts about

peak skis, and Luke Kappa joins me to offer his perspective perspective too, and we'll go into why I made my

initial comments here on Gear 30 back on May 23rd, what I've been up to, and learning since then,

and what we think needs to happen going forward. And if you haven't already, you should definitely read

Jason Blevins' article in the Colorado Sun about Peak. I am quoted in that article, and we're

going to be referring to it in this conversation. So we will include a link to that article in

the show notes. Okay, now before we dive in here, we want to welcome a few of our newest Blister Plus members.

So these are folks who signed up within the last 24 hours.

We've got Jason from Murray, Utah, Rocco, from Bend, Oregon, cool name, cool town, Rosemary from Garnerville, New York.

Damn, that's another very cool name.

We've got Ryan from Selma, Texas.

He just renewed his Blister Plus membership.

David from Jacksonville, Florida, Tommy from Richfield, Utah.

Shashi, from Flagstaff, Arizona.

She just renewed her membership.

And finally for today, we've got Bennett from Cambridge, New Zealand.

So whether you live in New Zealand or you're traveling to New Zealand or you're just getting after it in your backyard in Utah, click

the Blister Plus link in the show notes to see why everyone, from Rocco to Rosemary to Shashi,

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