Shop Talk: John Weir, Bentgate
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Today we’ve got another edition of Blister Shop Talk, where we check in with one of our Blister Recommended Shops to get their perspective on topics that range from universally applicable, to topics that help us better understand what’s going on the particular, local communities that they serve.
Bentgate is an outstanding shop located in Golden, Colorado, and our guest today is John Weir. John and I talk about fitting AT boots; the rise of splitboarding; John’s (really good) predictions for this upcoming season; some of the precautions and protocols that Bentgate is taking and putting in place this winter; a lasting (positive) effect that COVID may have on the bootfitting process; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES
- Background on Bentgate (4:58)
- Backcountry boots: “Comfort Performance” fit?? (6:59)
- Prediction #1: upcoming season (10:38)
- The rise of splitboarding (14:59)
- Prediction #2: avy courses (19:39)
- Prediction #3: snow dynamics (29:33)
- What’s Bentgate doing different this season? (37:35)
- What We’re Celebrating (44:51)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:12.4 | and you can head over to blisterreview.com, where if you haven't checked it out already, |
| 0:19.7 | for inexplicable reasons, you can now find our brand |
| 0:24.5 | new digital edition of our 2021 Winter Buyers Guide. And fun fact here, somebody let me know this week |
| 0:34.8 | that over on Reddit, on the Reddit skiing forum, whoever the moderator is |
| 0:42.5 | for that skiing forum has pinned, you know, as the first message at the top of the forum, |
| 0:50.0 | a link where it just tells people, if you're looking to buy skis, go check out the Blister |
| 0:56.7 | winner buyer's guide. |
| 0:58.2 | There's a link to one buyer's guide in the world, and it's the blister guide. |
| 1:03.4 | So shout out to whoever the moderator is at Reddit. |
| 1:07.7 | Appreciate it. |
| 1:08.6 | And, you know, I don't know what to say if it's good enough for the |
| 1:12.1 | Reddit skiing forum and their 930,000 some subscribers might be good enough for you. |
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| 1:21.0 | Okay, today we've got another edition of Shop Talk for you, where we talk with one of our |
| 1:27.0 | various Blister recommended shops to get a |
| 1:30.6 | shop's perspective on a mix of topics that range from broadly applicable to all of us, regardless |
| 1:38.0 | of where we live, to some topics that help us better understand what's going on in the specific local community |
| 1:46.9 | that the shop happens to be a part of. And so today we are sharing a really good and really |
| 1:53.8 | informative conversation that I recently had with John Weir of Bentgate, which is located |
| 1:59.8 | in Golden, Colorado. |
| 2:01.6 | John and I talk about fitting AT boots. |
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