Reviewer Reports: Palisades Tahoe; New Skis & Snowboards; & the Hunt for Red October
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
JBobb, Luke, Koppa, Kristin Sinnott and Jonathan Ellsworth just wrapped up a week at Palisades Tahoe, and today, they’re sharing lots of stories and impressions, and talking about the gear they reviewed — but didn’t bring with them. Thanks to everyone who made this a truly unforgettable trip.
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TOPICS & TIMES:
Getting There w/o Skis & Boards (1:34)
How Jonathan Jinxed Us (6:06)
What Luke’s Reading (10:22)
Day 1:
- Demo Center & People We Met Up With (14:23)
- Favorite Runs of the Day (17:31)
- Skis & Boards (19:23)
- Palisades Patrol Shreds Harder Than You (23:10)
- Slot Bar Sneak Attack (26:33)
Day 2:
- Armada Declivity 102 & Antimatter 100
- Day 2 Favorite Runs (37:00)
- Day 2 Equipment Picks (41:12)
Day 3:
- Rakim & Alpine Meadows (48:55)
- Connery Lundin (54:44)
- Wildfour & Rocker (59:35)
Day 4: (1:02:36)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister podcast network where we are very proudly |
| 0:11.0 | based out of Elevation Hotel in Crested But right now, we are at the village in Palisades, Tahoe, and I am talking to you while Kristen Sinat, |
| 0:24.6 | Luke Kappa and the strikingly Hanson Justin Bob are just staring at me, but this is where we are. |
| 0:30.9 | And it is Wednesday evening, March 4th. |
| 0:33.8 | And we have just finished three days of skiing and riding at Palisades Tahoe. |
| 0:40.8 | And it is time, ladies and gentlemen, for another reviewer report trip edition. |
| 0:46.6 | I was just looking at the title of our last one of these and the last part of a very long |
| 0:51.9 | name was Luke's three-day-old cheeseburger. |
| 0:54.9 | We don't have, I think, anything quite like that. |
| 0:57.9 | But we definitely have some other colorful things to talk about. |
| 1:01.7 | And I'm looking forward to talking about what has been a pretty cool trip so far. |
| 1:08.1 | And we still get to get on snow tomorrow. We have, we'll talk about this real quick. |
| 1:13.2 | We've had a hell of a time skiing with some very accomplished people. And tomorrow, I think our |
| 1:21.1 | docket is going to involve two members of the U.S. ski team, Travis Ginnong, and then probably, I think, we'll be linking |
| 1:29.2 | up with Darren Rolves. So that's, you know, just a normal Thursday morning of skiing. |
| 1:34.2 | We're going to get into it here. And I think to get started, we need to just talk about the |
| 1:38.8 | getting there process, because we have some good anecdotes here. So I'm going to maybe throw this to Kristen. |
| 1:46.4 | Kristen, we did something on this review trip that we have not done in more than 15 years |
| 1:53.6 | of the history of Blister on a review trip. |
| 1:56.7 | What would that be? |
| 1:58.4 | Yeah, so we didn't bring any skis or snowboards with us. |
| 2:02.4 | We left our bags at home on purpose. |
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