Reviewer Reports: 'Closing Day + Luke's a Father!' Edition
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Luke’s a dad! Our patron saint of GEAR:30, Hoji, will be back at the Blister Summit! You can win custom skis at our Summit Dinner! Plus, you’ll hear lots of talk from Luke and Jonathan about the skis they tested to close out the year at CBMR! (So many exclamation points!!!)
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Luke’s a Dad! (3:08)
Closing Day (5:38)
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Skis We Want to Check Out @ the Summit (1:01:51)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network, |
| 0:08.8 | where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested, |
| 0:14.4 | Butte, Colorado. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you, per usual, can check out everything we're |
| 0:22.7 | doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com and over on our YouTube channels, Blister Review |
| 0:29.6 | and Blister Studios. Okay, we've got a really good one for you here today. Luke Kappa and I are |
| 0:37.4 | talking about some more of the skis that we were spending time on |
| 0:42.6 | as our season here in Crested Butte came to a close. |
| 0:47.5 | But fortunately, this does not mean that our ski season is over, |
| 0:53.1 | because as I hope you know by now, we will be kicking |
| 0:56.4 | off the Blister Summit out at Snowbird in Utah, April 13th through the 17th. So we will talk a |
| 1:05.3 | little bit about some of the things that we've got going on there. We talk more than we have |
| 1:10.1 | at all about some of the panel sessions that will be taking |
| 1:13.7 | place at the summit. |
| 1:15.0 | And a couple other details, including our patron saint of Gear 30, Hoji. |
| 1:21.7 | Yes, Hoji, will be back at the bird for the summit. |
| 1:26.9 | We can all rejoice. And then one other thing I want to mention |
| 1:30.3 | because we've never done this. We are holding a dinner. It's going to be Tuesday night. So I think |
| 1:36.0 | that's April 15th. We're holding a dinner for a small number of people. And at that dinner, |
| 1:43.9 | we are going to be giving away, you will have a chance |
| 1:47.7 | to win a pair of fully custom skis from Folsom Custom Skies. And in addition to having a cool |
| 1:57.0 | dinner with the Blister team and potentially winning a pair of custom skis, the winner |
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