Hey everybody, welcome to a very special Monday edition of Gear 30.

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

We're doing and reviewing over at BlisterReview.com.

Well, today's episode contains a number of firsts,

like the fact that we are going to be talking about a product launch that I didn't know was

happening until I sat down to hit the record button for this conversation. And that is just the beginning of all the firsts.

So to give you more of a heads up than I had for this conversation, you're going to be hearing

now about a new co-lab between the splitboard binding companies, Spark R&D, and

ATK bindings. And in addition to that, you are now going to get to

hear me get caught completely off guard multiple times. Now, before we dive in, I had a handful of

conversations this past week with outdoor industry people. They were ski and mountaineering guides.

There was a general manager of a heli operation in Alaska. Shout out to Jeff. I talked with the

owner of a backcountry lodge in British Columbia and also several other individual guides who

were asking whether Blister Plus would make sense for them

and their clients. Now, some of the folks I spoke with, they live here in the United States,

some live in Canada, but all of them guide in numerous countries like Norway, Iceland, Chile,

etc. And the punchline here is that yes, if you are a guide or you work

for a guiding company or a heliop, it is worth your time to take a look at what Blister Plus can

do for your guides and your clients. And if you check it all out at the Blister Plus link that

will include in the show notes of this

episode, but you still have questions, well then just send us an email, which you can also find

that email address in the show notes, and you and I can then set up a time to hop on a call

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