Reviewing the Reviewer: Drew Kelly

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2022

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Blister reviewer, Drew Kelly — the man with the best turn in Crested Butte — is in the hot seat today, and in this insanely wide-ranging conversation, we talk about choss monsters, cave trolls, geek beaks, Drew’s dating profile, birding, Sweet Nasty, the universe, gear preferences, and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Meet Drew Kelly (2:52)
Growing up in New England (4:38)
Music, Writing, & Film (12:52)
College (14:02)
Moving through mountains (17:56)
Birding & Dating Profiles (20:35)
Ski Gear Preferences (27:36)
Backcountry Touring Gear (36:00)
Duke PT vs. ATK Freeraider (39:52)
Packing for the backcountry (42:37)
Choss Monstering (45:02)
Favorite Blister Reviewer? (53:25)
Favorite Skier & Favorite Runner (55:19)
Stupidest thing you've ever done? (1:00:26)
What are you better at than Sam Shaheen? (1:02:03)
Gear you’re most & least picky about? (1:03:44)
Favorite Books, Movies, & Music (1:08:25)
Random Review (1:21:16)
Best question I haven't asked you? (1:24:09)
What We’re Celebrating (1:29:39)

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.5	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at
0:15.5	blisterreview.com, and that includes our Blister Summit, registration which is now open and you should
0:27.9	well one become a blister member and then sign up for the summit if you're not already
0:34.5	a blister member because you'll get a discount on the summit.
0:38.7	And Kristen Sinnott and I, Kristen, of course, is our Blister Summit director.
0:43.3	We recorded a podcast that went up on our Blister podcast channel where we talk about some of the new info and the new format for next year's Blister summit. So if you haven't already listened to that
0:57.4	episode, you should. And then you should sign up because we are going to run out of open spots.
1:05.4	I'm sure of this for this year's summit. Okay, today we've got for you another reviewing the reviewer episode,
1:13.4	and in the hot seat today is Drew Kelly.
1:17.8	This ended up being kind of a long episode,
1:20.6	frankly, because this might be the most interesting
1:24.6	reviewing the reviewer episode that we've ever done. I don't know, we've
1:29.2	had some good ones, but man, this might have topped them all. And that's because Drew is a very
1:36.7	interesting person, which you are about to find out. I knew he was interesting. I didn't know he
1:42.8	was this interesting. So even I learned a bunch and
1:47.1	Drew is also a great guy, a great skier, somebody who loves the mountains and we talk a lot about
1:54.5	mountain travel in a lot of different forms. Drew also reviews for us on the ski side of things, and as you'll hear
2:02.9	him talk about, this guy is, some might describe him as a choss monster. Some might describe him
2:10.2	as a free soloist. Mostly maybe Drew describes himself as that. And then, I don't know, we talk a lot about Drew's dating profiles.
2:21.3	That happens a lot in this conversation. So anyway, I hope you enjoy. I'm really happy to get to
2:27.0	introduce you to Drew Kelly if you haven't had the fortune of getting to know him in real life.
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