Howdy, everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network.

As always, we are coming to you from our home base in Elevation Hotel in Mount Preston, Butte.

My name is Luke Kappa. I am the managing editor, Blister, and you can check out everything we are

doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. There, you can read all of our latest reviews, listen

to all of our latest podcasts, become a Blister Plus member, and a whole lot more. On that note,

I wanted to give a shout out to some of our newest Blister Plus members.

This week we've got Dylan from Reno, William from right here in Crested Butte, and Aaron from Lakewood, who's back for another year.

We are psyched to have you all on board.

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on our website in today's episode i I sit down with Kara Williard and

Jonathan Ellsworth, and we get a surprise visit from the strikingly handsome Justin Bob to

discuss some very wide-ranging topics. We cover a lot of gear, including the many skis

Jonathan and I opted to take out during closing weekend at Crested Butte Mountain

Resort.

Kara fills us in on her very powder-filled winter trips all over the world, and the two skis

and single boot that she used throughout those several months.

Then Justin recaps the exhausting sounding recent event, which involved biking,

skinning, hiking, and riding a lot of vert in an unusual setting. J. Bob also covers some

of the snowboards and snowboard boots he's been testing. We dive into some ski boot tangents,

and Jonathan even tells us about his recent surprise visit from the one and only Cody Townsend.

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