Reviewer Reports: Early-Season Testing & Luke’s Dumbest Moment on Skis
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’re back on snow! And testing gear! And excited to talk about it! Jonathan and Luke cover several of the standout skis so far; Luke confesses to one of the dumbest things he’s ever done on skis; they discuss underappreciated upsides of early-season skiing; some interesting new outerwear and gloves; and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy everybody? Welcome back to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.0 | My name is Lou Kappa. I am the managing editor at Blister, and I'm coming to you from our home base in Elevation Hotel right at the base of Mount Presta Butte, Colorado. |
| 0:18.0 | As always, you can check out everything we are doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:21.9 | blisterreview.com. Today, I am very happy to be back talking gear with Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:28.3 | particularly because we're talking about skis, outerwear, and other winter gear that we've |
| 0:32.8 | actually been testing very recently, some of which we were actually taking laps on just minutes before |
| 0:38.5 | we sat down to record. So yes, we have officially been back on snow and we are very happy about it. |
| 0:45.4 | In this episode, Jonathan and I cover several of the standout skis so far, the underappreciated |
| 0:51.3 | upsides of early season skiing, one of the dumbest things I've ever done on skis, |
| 0:57.5 | some interesting new outerwear and gloves, and a whole lot more. |
| 1:01.5 | Now, with all of us getting on snow, and hopefully a whole lot of you all, too, |
| 1:05.5 | this is often the time of year when I notice aspects of my gear that need a bit of work. |
| 1:12.2 | Whether it's a ski with edges that got a bit too cozy with too many rocks last season, a boot that's giving me |
| 1:17.9 | fit trouble, I'm actually experiencing that right now, or a pair of gloves that finally need |
| 1:22.6 | replacing. This is one of the many times when a good shop is indispensable. |
| 1:30.7 | And that's where our Blister Recommended Shops program comes in. |
| 1:37.3 | It's a collection of the best service-oriented shops we've worked with with locations around the globe. |
| 1:42.0 | Today, I want to highlight one of them, Roundhouse Sports Center, who operates two locations, |
| 1:44.7 | one on West Main Street in Bozeman, Montana, |
| 1:50.4 | and another right at the base of Bridger Bowl. Since 1971, the folks at Roundhouse have built their business around offering excellent customer service and the best products on the market. |
| 1:55.3 | They provide full service, ski and snowboard tuning, as well as boot fitting, daily rentals, |
| 1:59.9 | and a whole lot more. |
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