Ski Touring Gear & Listener Questions
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Which tech bindings feel the most like alpine bindings? What “very light” skis offer the best suspension and damping? Luke Koppa and Jonathan Ellsworth talk about a bunch of ski touring gear they’ve been reviewing and answer a number of your touring-related questions.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Blister Membership details (0:37)
- Fischer TransAlp Pro (3:46)
- DPS Pagoda Tour 100 RP (10:26)
- Ronin 108 (13:21)
- Weston Summit (16:48)
- WNDR Alpine Vital 100 (18:26)
- Alpine touring bindings (26:24)
- Downsides of the Hoji Hole? (35:54)
- “Very light” AT skis (37:25)
- AT vs Touring vs SkiMo (40:41)
- Pin bindings & the Hoji Pro Tour (42:36)
- Heel lift & AT boots (46:12)
- Inexpensive AT setups? (50:54)
- Backpacks for touring (55:23)
- What We’re Celebrating (59:26)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth |
| 0:11.4 | and I am sitting here in Blister HQ with Luke Kappa and you can check out everything we're |
| 0:17.9 | doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com. So yeah, as mentioned, |
| 0:25.3 | back here with Luke Kappa, it had been, it kind of felt like it'd just been too long. I don't |
| 0:30.7 | know how long it's been, but I was like, we need to do this again. Probably like two weeks, |
| 0:35.7 | I think. |
| 0:43.7 | Luke just got back from a ski tour. We are going to record this episode and then I am going to go out on a ski tour. And so that is our, that is our best life currently for us. |
| 0:52.0 | Let's see. Before we get going here, one thing I want to say, the blister membership. |
| 0:58.3 | We should talk about that for just a second. Many of you know about the blister membership. |
| 1:03.3 | Some of you do not. Many of you are already blister members. And we, we love our blister members. |
| 1:10.3 | Thank you for the support. But let's see. When you have |
| 1:17.7 | gear questions, for those who don't know, become a blister member. You can send us an email. We will |
| 1:24.8 | get you sorted out. That's kind of what we do around here. If you're also one of those people |
| 1:29.8 | who always leave the comments that are like, hey, where's the review on whatever the hell? Well, |
| 1:36.2 | just become a blister member and then you can send us an email and we will reply with what we know |
| 1:43.6 | about that product so far and the like. |
| 1:45.7 | And so that's a more productive thing to do than just leave comments about where's the full review. |
| 1:51.6 | So that's a pro tip. |
| 1:53.7 | You're welcome for that. |
| 1:55.2 | Luke, what else should I say about the blister membership? |
| 1:58.5 | If you are a blister member, there's actually a spot on our website under |
| 2:02.7 | Become a Blister member. It says Blister member Clubhouse. And if you're looking to ask a gear question, |
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