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GEAR:30

Reviewer Reports: Custom Insoles, Skis Boots, & Skis

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Kara Williard spells out the case for custom insoles in your ski boots, and discusses the Blizzard Black Pearl, Volkl Secret 96, & Salomon Stance 88W. Eric Freson talks about his trip to Canada and the WNDR Alpine Reason 120, 4FRNT Renegade, the Lange RX 130 LV, and the Salomon Shift Pro 130. And Luke Koppa talks about the new Line Blade Optic 96, Shaggy’s Ahmeek 95, and Moment Deathwish 104.

TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Update: Blister Summit (0:00)
  • Custom Insoles (6:34)
  • WNDR Alpine Reason 120 & 4FRNT Renegade (22:53)
  • Shampoo update from Luke (30:13)
  • Line Blade Optic 96 (31:23)
  • Blizzard Black Pearl 97, Volkl Secret 96, Salomon Stance 88W (36:20)
  • Lange RX 130 LV (39:39)
  • Moment Deathwish 104 (46:10)
  • Shaggy’s Ahmeek 95 (49:40)
  • Salomon Shift Pro 130 (53:02)
  • What We’re Celebrating (59:20)

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

0:10.2

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over

0:15.9

at blisterreview.com.

0:19.0

Okay, for this episode of Gear 30, this is another one of our reviewer reports episodes,

0:24.9

and today I have joining me, Luke Kappa, Kara Williard, and Eric Friesen.

0:32.2

And in this conversation, we kick things off by having Kara, give us a bit of a masterclass on the importance of custom insoles.

0:42.3

This is picking up from our conversation last week on Gear 30.

0:46.8

And then we are talking about some Lang Ski boots and Solomon ski boots and Wonder

0:53.1

Alpine's Reason 120 and a new ski that is making

0:58.0

Luke Kappa wildly happy and more. This episode of Gear 30 is presented by our Blister

1:06.3

recommended shop, Backcountry Essentials in Bellingham, Washington. Backcountry Essentials is one of the

1:13.7

premier ski boot fitting shops in the Pacific Northwest. They have highly skilled ski technicians,

1:20.9

and they are the only shop between Seattle and Whistler where you can get quiver killers

1:26.8

installed in your skis.

1:29.8

Backcountry Essentials also carries a curated selection of some of the top winter gear,

1:35.7

including products from Dalbello, Roxa, Atomic, K2, Flylo, Marker, Blizzard, and Technica.

1:43.0

So you should absolutely stop in the next time you are in

1:46.8

downtown Bellingham, but you can also shop their inventory online. Just go to backcountry essentials.net,

1:55.5

and they ship anywhere in the United States. And if you'd like to hear even more about the background of

2:02.9

Backcountry Essentials, I recorded a Gear 30 conversation with Backcountry Essentials founder, Chris

2:09.6

Gersten. That is episode number 128 of Gear 30, and we'll include a link to that in the show

2:16.8

notes of this episode.

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