Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,

and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

All right, it is time once again for Cody Townsend and me to review the news, and we have got some really big topics this time around.

And as always, you can check the show notes of this episode for the specific topics and the accompanying time stamps.

If you want to get a sense of what we're going to be

talking about here, or you can just sit back, relax, and take the ride with us.

And before we get going, I do want to tell you about our upcoming Blister Summit. It kicks off

February 20th right here in Mount Crested Butte.

We have a bunch of really interesting brands that are going to be at the summit, including

Kessley.

And a number of you have written in to say that you want to see more Kessly reviews out of us.

Well, at the Blister Summit, you're going to have a chance to get on some Kessley's yourself.

You can probably grab me or some of our other Blister reviewers.

Tell us to get on the exact same ski as you, and then we'll go ski them together, and you can

get a real-time firsthand review of what we think of the particular

Kessley ski of your choosing. So there's that. And related note, you will have a chance to

talk with, hang out with, and ski with all of our various blister reviewers, including Paul

Forward, who's coming out from Girdwood, Alaska,

to be at the summit.

I was talking with Paul again last night.

He's excited to get out here.

So, you know, come ski with your favorite blister reviewer, whether that's Paul Forward or

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