Well, hey everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

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

And just before we get started here, I just want to let you guys know that as of yesterday,

we published on the website a conversation that I had with Eric Jorlifson about the updated

hoji ski.

And so if you have yet to check out that conversation, well, it's Hogi talking about

the new Hogi. And so if you're listening to Gear 30, that should be all I need to say here.

But it's typically great Hogi talking about skis. So we will put a link to that video in the

show notes of this episode.

Go listen to Hoji talk about his own ski.

But right now, I am very happy to have on the line the man who even Adam Clark can make look good in ski photos.

Paul Forward.

Paul.

I've been dying to say that, like, for the past week since I knew we were going to do this conversation.

So, uh, yeah.

Hey, Jonathan. How are you?

I'm good. Um, it's got, I felt a little bad. Like, Adam and I talked about you quite a bit in our blister podcast conversation that I had with Adam about two weeks ago now.

And before we get started here, I guess I was curious.

You listened after the fact to that conversation.

I was kind of curious.

Did you learn things about Adam in that conversation that you didn't already know,

having spent quite a good bit of time with Adam in Alaska?

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