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GEAR:30

Ski Quivers for Garden Gnomes, 1-Year-Olds, & Heli Guides

GEAR:30

BLISTER

Snow, Snowboarding, Arts, Skiing, Gear, Outdoors, Design, Bike, Sports, Technology

4.9 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

We talk to Blister reviewers Sascha Anastas & Paul Forward about their ski quivers; binding preferences; coffee in AK; your questions; and more.


TOPICS & TIMES:

  • Sascha’s quiver selections (10:17)
  • Sascha’s general take on bindings (23:45)
  • Paul’s 18-month-old son’s ski quiver (30:51)
  • Shocking coffee revelations about Girdwood, AK (33:24)
  • Best pow ski, regardless of place? (39:43)
  • Blister member questions (44:01)
  • Paul’s 3-ski quiver (51:13)
  • DPS Lotus 124 vs DPS Koala 119 (58:21)
  • Bindings (another shocking revelation) (1:02:21)
  • Paul’s 2-ski quiver (1:06:07)
  • Paul’s 1-ski quiver (1:10:15)


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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

0:11.2

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over

0:16.1

at blisterreview.com.

0:19.5

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0:34.6

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1:34.5

That's blister.com. Okay, today we are back with another round of ski quiver conversations,

1:42.8

and we are talking first with one of my

1:45.8

favorite people in the world to ski with and ride bikes with Sasha Anastis.

1:52.0

And from there, we talk to everybody's favorite doctor slash heli guide, Paul Forward.

1:58.5

And just one thing I want to point out here, Sasha and I talk about the Liberty

2:02.2

Genesis 96, and that Genesis 96 also goes by the name of the Origin 96. So if you are

2:11.0

looking up our reviews of those, you can search for the Origin 96 or Genesis 96. And also, I want to say I was skiing yesterday

2:20.9

with Luke Kappa and telling him about my conversation with Sasha. And Luke wanted me to point out

2:27.1

to all of you that he actually prefers the current version of the origin slash Genesis 96. So keep that in mind. Luke doesn't agree with

2:37.5

Sasha and me. So there you go. Now also speaking of Luke, I only saw some of your very good

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