Report: The 20/21 Ski Season in Europe
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BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’ve talked quite a bit on Blister about the ski season in North America, but today we’re talking with Sebastian Steinbach, the owner of Blacksheep Sports in Munich, Germany, about the European ski season; we revisit some of the predictions that Sebastian had made prior to this ski season, and we get his early predictions for what he thinks this next ski season will look like in Europe.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Lockdowns in Europe at the start of the season (3:14)
- Backcountry skiing during Covid (10:18)
- Avoiding outbreaks moving forward (25:51)
- The financial state of ski resorts & ski shops (35:55)
- Predictions for next season (42:41)
RELATED LINKS:
- GEAR:30 ep. 116: Shop Talk w/ Sebastian Steinbach
- GEAR:30 ep. 6: Blacksheep Sports History & European Freeride Culture
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to the Blister podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:14.2 | Okay, we have talked quite a bit on Blister about the ski season in North America, |
| 0:20.0 | but I wanted to get a clear sense of how |
| 0:22.5 | the ski season went down in Europe, where, for a whole bunch of reasons, things were far more |
| 0:29.4 | complex. So today I'm talking with Sebastian Steinbach, who is the owner of Black Sheep Sports |
| 0:35.6 | in Munich, Germany. And not only is Sebastian a European |
| 0:39.4 | ski shop owner, he also spent a good bit of time traveling back and forth between Munich and |
| 0:45.0 | Kitsbule, Austria. So in this conversation, we get a bit of a recap of the European ski season, |
| 0:51.8 | and then we also revisit some of the predictions that Sebastian |
| 0:55.6 | had made prior to this ski season, and then we once again asked Sebastian to pull out his |
| 1:02.0 | crystal ball and offer some of his early predictions for what he thinks this next ski season |
| 1:08.3 | will look like in Europe. And we'll include a link in the show notes to this |
| 1:13.3 | episode to my last podcast conversation with Sebastian. And spoiler alert, this Friday, you'll be |
| 1:20.7 | able to hear Sebastian and me discuss a bunch of new ski gear, including a lot of new AT ski boots |
| 1:27.0 | over on our Gear 30 podcast. |
| 1:30.5 | But for now, it's time to get more details and learn more about the complex logistics of |
| 1:35.8 | this past ski season in Europe. So let's get to it. |
| 1:42.6 | Well, Sebastian, how are you today and where are you today? Hey, Jonathan. Good to be back on the |
| 1:49.4 | podcast. I'm doing actually great. Had a good day so far, skiing and biking. And I'm right now in |
| 1:57.9 | Austria. Actually, I'm in Kittsbiel, where the famous Hancom race is taking place in January always. |
| 2:03.5 | And I'm at my wife's place, which always is my silver lining. |
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