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 blister review.com.

Today I am talking with Alex Stettner and Matt McDonald's. blister review.com.

Today I am talking with Alex Stetner and Matt McDonald from Powder 7 in Golden, Colorado.

This is another Shop Talk episode, and in this edition of Shop Talk, we're really kind of expanding the boundaries of what we tend to talk about in shop talk

episodes. So there's quite a bit more talk about shop life and where the Powder 7 staff

skis. And yeah, we also bring up this issue of the price of a day pass at ski areas. Now, if you are listeners

of reviewing the news over on our Blister podcast, you know that this is a topic that Cody

and I have been talking about a good bit this year. And anyway, I kind of wanted to get another

perspective with Alex and Matt

because they get out to a whole bunch of different ski areas. So we dive into that. You're going

to hear more about Powder 7. Yes, there will be some gear talk, of course. And there's some other

great stuff in this conversation too. Then we've got our

crashes and close call segment and of course what we're celebrating this week. Now, just before we get

going, I want to mention two things. Our upcoming blister summit, this is our third blister summit.

This is happening right here in Crested

Butte, February 12th through the 16th. And man, the programming for this thing is kind of incredible.

So we will include a link to the Blister Summit in the show notes of this episode, or you can go to our

homepage, blisterreview.com, to get all the information you need about the summit. But my goodness,

if you haven't checked this out yet, you need to, because this is going to be one of the best

weeks of the entire winter. I promise you. I'm actually going to promise you.

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