Ski & Snowboard Industry Predictions for the New Decade
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4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
What will the ski & snowboard industry look like 10 years from now? Will backcountry skiing and splitboarding keep growing? Will indoor ski areas become more common? Will there be fewer or more ski companies in existence 10 years from now? Paul Forward, Sam Shaheen, Luke Koppa and I offer our thoughts on all of these questions and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Backcountry Skiing (1:50)
- Backcountry Splitboarding (11:30)
- Backcountry Telemarking (14:30)
- Inbounds Skiing (17:43)
- Inbounds Snowboarding (21:25)
- Inbounds Telemarking (23:37)
- Monoskiing vs. Ski Blading (26:17)
- Park Skiing (29:50)
- Indoor Ski Areas? (34:25)
- General Industry Trends (41:59)
- Wildest Predictions (1:06:00)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, happy New Year and welcome back to the Blister podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:16.0 | Last week on the podcast, we talked about some of our New Year's goals and resolutions. And last Friday |
| 0:23.0 | on our Gear 30 podcast, we handed out awards for the most influential and then the best |
| 0:29.6 | gear of the past decade. If you haven't checked out that Gear 30 episode, you definitely should. |
| 0:36.3 | And so now in today's episode, we wanted to offer our thoughts |
| 0:40.3 | on what the ski and snowboard industry might look like 10 years from now. Will backcountry |
| 0:46.5 | skiing and splitboarding have continued to grow? Will indoor ski areas become more of a thing? |
| 0:53.8 | Will there be more or fewer ski companies in existence 10 years from now? |
| 0:59.2 | We make our predictions on all of these questions and more, |
| 1:02.8 | so see what you think and let us know in the show notes to this episode on our website. |
| 1:08.4 | Here we go. |
| 1:16.5 | Okay, guys, we've been talking about New Year's resolutions. |
| 1:25.1 | We've been talking about this past decade and some of our choices for most influential gear and best gear of the past 10 years. |
| 1:29.3 | Time to make some predictions about the ski and snowboard industry in general for this coming 10 |
| 1:37.9 | years. |
| 1:38.9 | So that's what I wanted to get into today. |
| 1:41.6 | And I thought it would just be a good opportunity to see how much consensus |
| 1:46.0 | we have among ourselves and just get people thinking about where we might be 10 years from now. |
| 1:52.6 | So I think I want to start with backcountry skiing. |
| 1:58.1 | That was something that we had said was perhaps one of the biggest trends of the |
| 2:03.4 | last 10 years. Let's start this with Paul. Question, will backcountry skiing continue on this |
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