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

where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested,

Butte, Colorado.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and

reviewing over at blisterreview.com, and as you now know, if you listened last week here on Gear 30,

on our YouTube channels, two channels, our original channel with the handle at Blister Review and our newest channel at Blister Studios.

We have been putting up a number of really good videos over on both of those things.

So if you have yet to check those out and subscribe,

we have included links in the show notes of this episode and enjoy. Go forth and

enjoy. Please, we look forward to hearing what you think. All right, we have got a really good

conversation for you here today. Luke Kappa, Paul Forward, and I have once again assembled

to talk about some of the gear that we have recently been

reviewing.

We are going to also discuss topics related to that gear.

And, and this is really cool, today you are going to get to hear a pretty excellent

conversation, if I do say so myself, about ski design and specifically POW ski design. Now, as many of you know,

Paul lives in Alaska. He is a lead heli guide for Chugatch Powder Guides. And of course, he's also a

doctor and yeah, a very cool, skilled bow hunter and a great dad, blah, blah, blah,

but Paul has spent a stupid amount of time skiing pow on virtually every powder ski of

the past probably, I don't know, 15 years. And over those years, he has formulated some ideas from all of those experiences.

So today, you are going to get to hear us talk about those ideas,

and what's really exciting here is that those ideas are, in fact,

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