Hey everybody, 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.

Today we've got another episode of our reviewing the reviewer series where we ask various

blister reviewers questions about their backgrounds and their gear preferences to give you a more

complete picture of the people behind our reviews.

And since we like to rank and review things around here, we also assign a score to each of our

reviewers' answers, then come up with a cumulative review grade for each of them.

In The Hot Seat today is Mountain Bike reviewer Zach Henderson, but in addition to mountain

biking, Zach is also a snowboarder and a skier.

So our conversation here is almost equal parts bike, board, and ski talk.

And of course, we also include staple questions like,

What's the stupidest thing you've ever done?

Now, a couple notes before we get started.

First, this is another reminder that the pre-order of our winter buyer's guide is live.

So if you order the guide before September 1st, you will get the best possible price on the guide.

Or you can become a Blister Plus member, and you can get a free copy of both the digital and the print edition of this massive guide that is well over 300 pages.

And we will ship this behemoth to you for free if you are an active blister plus member before September 1st.

So if you're not a blister Plus member that and you do want this

huge guide, sign up before September 1st. Now, on another and more serious note, many of you know

that our friend and fellow Blister reviewer, Eric Friesen, died in a backcountry ski accident last spring. Well, this past weekend

in Gunnison, there was a beautiful memorial service for Eric, held in his backyard, and it brought

together many of Eric's closest friends and family members. Lots of hilarious stories about Eric

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