Pete Wagner on Wagner’s new Summit Skis, Avalanche Cores, & Niehues Collab
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We talk to Pete Wagner about three big new things happening at Wagner Custom Skis, where everything is built right in Telluride, Colorado.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Wagner’s new “Summit” skis (4:45)
- Summit 106 (15:56)
- Summit 107 (19:42)
- Summit 97 (21:30)
- Factory skis vs. the full custom process (22:49)
- Current consumer trends? (25:18)
- Avalanche cores (27:13)
- New James Niehues collab (33:42)
- Next Level Skiing podcast & Jonathan’s neck (35:36)
- What will you do for the next Blister Summit? (43:19)
RELATED LINKS
- See Wagner’s “Summit” skis
- Video: Wagner’s “Avalanche Cores
- Wagner’s Niehaus Collab Skis
- Getting to Gunnison-Crested Butte: Flights
- Blister Summit Registration
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- Become a Blister Member / Get our Buyer’s Guide
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:16.4 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:19.4 | This week we are talking with Pete Wagner, the founder of Wagner Custom Skies, where they build |
| 0:25.7 | everything out of Telluride, Colorado, right next to the ski area there. |
| 0:31.7 | Now, there are three new things happening at Wagner Skies, so we caught up with Pete to talk about them all, including their |
| 0:39.5 | new factory skis or summit skis, which are actually a direct result of our first Blister |
| 0:46.6 | summit held this past February. Now, Pete is going to also be at our next Blister Summit, |
| 0:53.7 | which is this coming February, and you should |
| 0:56.8 | be there too. So we'll include a link in the show notes of this episode for more info on the |
| 1:02.2 | Blister Summit, or you can always just go to the navigation bar of our website for more information, |
| 1:08.1 | including more brands that will be at the summit, and we just added another |
| 1:14.4 | one that I think a lot of you will be interested in. So check that out. Now, this week's |
| 1:19.7 | episode of Gear 30 is presented by avocado, makers of avocado mattresses and bed frames and a whole lot more. Now, as you all know, |
| 1:31.1 | I am really trying hard to get better at this whole sleep thing. Since I started Blister over a |
| 1:37.6 | decade ago, I probably have earned a grade of like a D or D minus, I don't know, maybe an F when it comes to sleep. |
| 1:47.2 | So this summer, I have undertaken what I am calling Jonathan's sleep experiment. |
| 1:53.8 | And I swear to you, I am really trying hard to get my sleep grade up to like, I don't know, |
| 1:59.1 | maybe like a B or B plus, maybe an A minus, if we can |
| 2:03.2 | dare to dream, right? So what we're going to be doing here, I am going to be publishing on |
| 2:08.5 | the site, some of the things that I've been reading and some of the stuff I've been doing |
| 2:12.6 | to try to get more sleep and higher quality sleep. And so one of the things I did this summer was do |
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