Reviewing the News w/ Cody Townsend (March 2026)
BLISTER Podcast
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Cody & Jonathan are back to review the news, including Cody’s impressive recent completion of Norman's 13 with Tommy Caldwell & Bjarne Salen. They also discuss ‘alpine divorce’; ‘dirty singles’; recap the FWT, and do an Oscars’ Edition of ‘What We’re Reading & Watching.’
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to the Blister podcast on the Blister Podcast. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:08.4 | and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com and over on |
| 0:16.0 | our YouTube channels, Blister Review, and Blister Studios. |
| 0:27.9 | Today, Cody Townsend and I are back to review the news, and that includes Cody's own recent completion of Norman's 13, which he undertook with Tommy Caldwell and |
| 0:33.6 | Bjarne Salon, and today you are going to hear the most in-depth trip report |
| 0:39.1 | to be published to date |
| 0:40.5 | about that undertaking, |
| 0:43.0 | even if the conspiracy theorists |
| 0:45.3 | among us might think this whole thing |
| 0:47.9 | may have just been an excuse |
| 0:49.6 | to publish some mountaineering thirst trap photos. |
| 0:53.0 | We'll explain, and you can judge, |
| 0:56.1 | you can judge for yourself. Cody and I also talk about the free ride world tour. We revisit |
| 1:02.8 | some topics that we discussed last month. We have a phenomenal mountain town advice question |
| 1:09.1 | for you here today and more. And folks, it is upon us |
| 1:14.5 | a week from today. Blister Summit 2026 kicks off at Snowbird in Utah on April 13th. Now, as I'm |
| 1:25.0 | sure you know by now, Snowbird has recently received a couple feet of fresh snow. |
| 1:30.7 | There's still a bit more in the forecast, and that all means that things are setting up for |
| 1:36.3 | some outstanding spring, skiing, and riding at Snowbird for the Blister Summit. |
| 1:43.5 | Now, related note here, yesterday we just had our closing day |
| 1:47.7 | here in Crested Butte, and it was an incredibly fun day. Everybody was out, and I was bopping |
| 1:54.3 | around with a bunch of my different friends, and the conditions were actually perfect spring skiing. In other words, basically the most fun you can |
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