What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network,

where we are very proudly based out of Elevation Hotel right here in Crested Butte, Colorado.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing

and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

So normally here on Gear 30, you hear us share our strong opinions about ski design.

But at our recent Blister Summit at Snowbird, we had Blister Summit attendees pose

their questions to ski designers and manufacturers. Luke Kappa hosted this session,

the questions were great, and our panelists offered some really insightful answers. So I think you all are going

to really enjoy this one here today. All right, let's first give a shout out to a few of our

newest Blister Plus members, and just a heads up on Monday over on our Blister podcast, Cody

Townsend and I are once again going to be

reviewing the news. And there we are going to share a kind of wild story that came in this

week from a new Blister Plus member. And let's just say it involves wasps.

Wasps and crashes.

That's what I'll share with you for now. So you'll hear about that on Monday on our Blister podcast.

And right now then, I will just go ahead and welcome new members,

Philip in Colorado Springs, Colorado,

Yelena in Richmond, Virginia, Joe in Nathrop, Colorado, Nicholas

in Anchorage, Alaska, Daniel in Truckee, California, and finally for today, Ben, who I was

actually just hanging out with in Washington, D.C. Now, Ben has actually been a Blister

Plus member for several years now, but he just realized that his membership had lapsed

for a bit, and so he just renewed. And this is probably a really good reminder to all of our

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