Shop Talk: Escape Route, Whistler & Squamish
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today we’ve got another Shop Talk episode for you, where we speak with folks from one of our Blister Recommended Shops to get their perspective on a mix of topics ranging from broadly applicable to all of us, to topics that help us better understand what’s going on in the local community that each shop serves.
James Reddy, the director of Escape Route in Whistler and Squamish, British Columbia, joins us to talk about Escape Route’s backcountry-only focus; the ski culture(s) of the Sea-to-Sky Corridor; elephant snot; the new Dynafit Radical Pro boot; the Fritschi Tecton; avy pack comparisons, and more.
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TOPICS & TIMES
- Escape Route today (3:40)
- James’ background & history of Escape Route (5:51)
- Alpine Demo Center (12:46)
- Squamish vs Whistler: ski culture (21:17)
- Elephant Snot (23:07)
- Fritschi Tecton A/T binding (27:36)
- New Hoji walk-mode boot: Dynafit Radical Pro (36:16)
- DPS skis (41:40)
- Avy airbag pack comparisons (48:36)
- What We’re Celebrating (54:14)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and as always, you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing, |
| 0:16.0 | plus all of our other podcasts over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:22.1 | And today on Gear 30, we've got another edition of Shop Talk, where we check in with one |
| 0:27.6 | of our Blister recommended shops to get their perspective on topics that range from |
| 0:32.4 | universally applicable to topics that help us better understand what's going on in the particular local |
| 0:39.1 | communities that each shop serves. And in this edition of Shop Talk, we are speaking with James |
| 0:46.2 | Reddy, who is the director of the Escape Route, which has locations in both Squamish and |
| 0:52.4 | Whistler. And also, I will just tell you up front right now, because I happen to live south of Canada, |
| 1:00.6 | I sometimes in this episode call it the escape route, but I think James's preferred pronunciation |
| 1:06.7 | is the escape route. |
| 1:08.3 | So, James, my apologies, you know, you say tomato, we sometimes say |
| 1:14.6 | tomato down here. Anyway, the website you can go to is escap root.ca, and you can learn a whole lot more |
| 1:23.5 | about what they have going on there and their alpine demo center and some of the things |
| 1:28.9 | that we are going to dive into here in this conversation. And in addition to that, you're also |
| 1:35.2 | going to get to hear James and me talk about important things like, you know, elephant snot. |
| 1:41.0 | We also talk about some specific gear, including the fritchie tecton binding, |
| 1:48.1 | the new Dinafit boot that features the Hoji Walk mode called the Radical Pro. We talk a bit about |
| 1:55.2 | DPS skis, and then at the end of the episode, James offers some really useful comparisons |
| 2:00.7 | between a number of different avi packs, avi bags that are on the market. |
| 2:06.0 | So that is what we have on tap for you today. |
| 2:08.6 | And so let's go ahead and get to my conversation with James Ready. |
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