Pep Fujas: from the Farm to K2 to WNDR
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Pep Fujas has always been at the forefront of freeskiing, and he is now looking to move things forward once again. So we talk to Pep about growing up on his family farm in Oregon; his remarkable film career; his favorite Seth Morrison story; his long relationship with K2 and his favorite K2 skis; his decision to go back to school; and his even bigger decision to join the team at WNDR Alpine.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Getting involved with WNDR (3:10)
- Growing up + his all-important bus rides (6:10)
- Connecting with K2 (9:25)
- Ski films (15:15)
- Favorite Nimbus memory? (16:55)
- Favorite Seth Morrison story (19:37)
- Connecting with Patagonia (21:07)
- Pep’s Favorite K2 skis (23:50)
- Your biggest influences? (30:47)
- What current segment of skiing impresses you the most? (33:26)
- Returning to school (35:34)
- ‘Business’ doesn’t have to be a 4-letter word (39:08)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode number 100 of the Blister podcast, which is a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors, and a bunch of other stuff we like. |
| 0:12.2 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:21.8 | Pep Fugis has always lived at the forefront of skiing, and he is now looking to move the |
| 0:27.3 | industry forward once again. |
| 0:29.7 | So we talked to Pep about growing up on his family farm in Oregon, his remarkable and long |
| 0:35.5 | film career, his favorite Seth Morrison's story, sorry, that one was |
| 0:40.3 | primarily for my own benefit, his long relationship with K2 and his favorite K2 skis, |
| 0:47.3 | his decision to go back to school, and his even bigger recent decision to join the team at |
| 0:53.8 | Wonder Alpine. And before we get started, |
| 0:57.1 | I want to say a big thank you to you for listening, whether you just recently have found |
| 1:02.4 | the Blister podcast or whether you've been with us since episode number one. This has been a |
| 1:07.7 | whole lot of fun and a very interesting ride, and I can honestly say that with |
| 1:12.6 | 100 episodes now under our belt, it really truly feels like we are just getting started. |
| 1:19.5 | So if you've been enjoying some of these 100 conversations, it would mean a whole lot to us |
| 1:25.0 | and help the cause if you would tell your friends about the show and leave us a nice rating or review in iTunes. |
| 1:32.3 | We'll even make you a deal. |
| 1:33.8 | If you agree to do those two little things, we'll agree to do another hundred episodes. |
| 1:39.6 | That's a pretty good deal, right? |
| 1:41.4 | And with that, let's now get to our conversation with Pep Fugus. |
| 1:48.1 | Well, Pep, how are you today and where are you today? I'm doing great. I'm at the design |
| 1:54.4 | lab in Salt Lake City, Utah. Just trying to get orientated in my new position. Your new position. |
| 2:01.5 | Well, we're going to be talking about this new position and this new chapter of yours, |
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