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

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out all the very many things that we are doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

So a few weeks ago on Gear 30, this was episode number 277, to be exact.

Luke Kappa and I were talking about our new Blister community reviews, and we got into a really interesting conversation i think

about skier ability levels and how to define those things and we asked you to write in to let us

know what you thought of our take on that topic. And you all showed up

and wrote a lot of really smart things that really got me thinking a lot. And to be honest,

I'm kind of on the fence about whether we should keep our definitions the way that we rolled them out

on that episode number 277 or whether we ought to revise them.

You all made really good arguments, frankly, on both sides of that, good arguments for keeping

them the same, good arguments for switching them up

or tweaking them just a little bit. And so this week, I recruited Jordan Jones, who is the co-founder

and president of our Blister Recommended Shop, Powder 7, which is located on the outskirts of Golden, Colorado, to see if

Jordan had a different take on these definitions and ratings of ours, given his work over the

past 16 or so years at Powder 7, where of course, they are dealing with skiers

all the time and trying to line up the right gear for them and quickly trying to assess and

understand what sort of skier type and skier ability level each customer is. So I brought Jordan on and that is a lot of what

we're going to be talking about today. Like I said, I'm obsessed with this topic at the moment.

And once again, I would love for all of you to give this conversation a listen and let us know,

should we leave our rating scale the same as we currently have it? You can see those notes in episode number 277 and Jordan and I

spell out a couple of the key definitions in this episode here. Or should we tweak these things?

Let us know, please. Now, a couple notes. We've

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