Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30, part of the Blister Podcast Network, which is headquartered in Elevation Hotel in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you, of course, can check out everything.

We're doing and reviewing

over at blisterreview.com. Today I am talking with Luke Kappa and Kara Williard about

ski boots and front side skis and mountain biking in Nepal and engagement taco parties and some new apparel that we're

quite high on and we're going to tell you why and folks man we are getting closer and closer to

it our blister summit in mountcrested butte where we're also going to be launching our first annual Blister Awards,

where we will be recognizing some of the best ski and snowboard films of the year,

and the athletes and creators who made them.

The Blister Summit is going to be taking place February 4th through the 8th, 2024.

And of course, as part of the Blister Summit, we are going to once again offer our Blister

Summit backcountry program, which is free to all Blister Summit attendees thanks to the generous

support of Bagbalm.

Bagbalm is allowing us to offer for free ski tours of the Crested Butte backcountry that are led by professional guides, and these tours will be available for everyone, whether you have very little backcountry experience or whether you are

an expert, backcountry skier. To participate, you just have to sign up by January 15th,

and we will include a link in the show notes of this episode, where you can then register for

the summit and get all of the info you need.

This is going to be a good one, folks.

So come join us in Mount Crested Butte, February 4th through the 8th,

for what is our favorite week of the winter.

And now, let's talk about all that stuff I just told you we were going to talk about

with Luke Kappa and Kara Williard.

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