Shop Talk: Outdoor Gear Exchange, Burlington, VT + Crashes & Close Calls
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking ski gear, customer trends, & sustainability initiatives (from the POV of a shop owner) with Mike Donohue of Outdoor Gear Exchange, our Blister Recommended Shop in Burlington, Vermont. And we have a great listener-submitted story for “Crashes & Close Calls.”
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Outdoor Gear Exchange History & Consignment (4:11)
- Mike’s History & OGE Today (7:15)
- Telemarking Roots, Splitboarding, & Gear (9:56)
- Ski Boots & Mike’s Touring Gear (12:57)
- Shift Bindings (16:29)
- Skis (20:25)
- Customer Trends (22:48)
- Buying New vs Used Gear (29:01)
- Sustainability: Shop Owners & Manufacturers (31:11)
- Crashes & Close Calls (41:16)
- What We’re Celebrating: Relationship Questions! (48:14)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over |
| 0:17.2 | at Blister Review.com. |
| 0:20.9 | Today we are talking about gear and gear trends and manufacturer sustainability |
| 0:27.5 | with Mike Donahue, the owner of Outdoor Gear Exchange in Burlington, Vermont. |
| 0:35.1 | And not only is Mike the owner of Outdoor Gear Exchange, turns out he was also |
| 0:41.4 | employee number one at Outdoor Gear Exchange back in 1995. And since its early days, |
| 0:49.6 | Outdoor Gear Exchange really established itself as a very core shop in the New England area. |
| 0:56.3 | And as you'll hear in this conversation, Mike is someone who still is very passionate about |
| 1:03.3 | skiing, multiple types of skiing, and riding bikes and basically just getting outside as much as he can. |
| 1:12.6 | Now, before we get going here, I just want to say a word about our upcoming Blister Summit. |
| 1:17.9 | The dates again are February 12th through the 16th. |
| 1:22.1 | And the big news is that we are opening the summit up to snowboarding solids and splitboards this year. |
| 1:32.2 | And so I've talked about this before, but it's worth reiterating again. |
| 1:35.9 | This was always the original vision for the Blister Summit to have both ski and snowboard there. |
| 1:46.7 | And so we are excited that that is happening. And we will soon be announcing some of the brands that are going to be there and some of the |
| 1:53.0 | snowboard athletes too. So stay tuned for that. But this would be a great opportunity. If you are |
| 1:59.8 | planning to come to the summit and you've got some |
| 2:02.5 | people in your crew who prefer to slide down on snow standing sideways, well, now you can keep the |
| 2:09.8 | whole band together, come on over to Crested Butte and slide around on snow however you feel like |
| 2:16.7 | doing that. Oh, and it's also worth pointing out that we |
| 2:20.7 | have been getting nice snowfall around here and one of the great things about crested butte is |
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