The Making of Our 17/18 Winter Buyer’s Guide

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🗓️ 30 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the making of — and our takeaways from — our 17/18 Winter Buyer's Guide, including our "Best Of" awards, our Blister Spectrums, our ski quiver selections, and some of the strangest claims we saw in some of the other buyer's guides out there.

TOPICS & TIMES:

A very cool thing we did recently at marblebrewing.com (2:16)
The blurring of ski categories (3:15)
What we talk about when we talk about “Frontside” (8:56)
The pros and cons of the growing category of “50/50” Skis (13:57)
17/18 Season -- the year of the binding? (22:15)
“Stated Range of Motion” numbers on AT boots & the Scarpa Freedom RS (23:07)
Head-scratching claims we saw in other buyers guides about the Blizzard Rustler 10, J Skis The Metal, and ON3P Billy Goat (29:03)
Our “Blister Spectrums” (35:37)
Our Ski Quiver Selections in the Buyer’s Guide (38:19)
The rationale behind our Blister “Best Of” Awards + some specific winners: Patagonia MicroPuff; Scarpa Maestrale RS; and K2 Ikonic 84 Ti (42:52)
Almost “Best Of” Award winners: G3 SENDr 112, The North Face Ventrix (51:46)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the second episode of our new Blister podcast, Gear 30. I'm Jonathan
0:10.8	Ellsworth, the currently under the weather founder of Blister. And as always, you can check us out
0:16.5	online at blisterreview.com. We are back at it after a bit of a surprise but much appreciated vacation
0:24.6	that I took shortly after we launched Gear 30, and if you somehow missed our inaugural episode,
0:30.5	you should definitely give it a listen since we had a great conversation with Eric Jorlifson
0:34.9	about his new hoji boot.
0:43.9	I've now been back for over a week from my first vacation in five years, but upon returning,
0:48.6	I slept very little as I was trying to get caught up on everything and managed to come down with a cold.
0:49.8	So that's why I might sound a little different right now, but the good news is I wasn't sick when
0:54.7	we recorded this episode, so hopefully I sound a little better in the conversation itself.
1:00.4	On this episode, we wanted to talk a bit about the process of assembling our 1718 Winter
1:06.2	Buyers Guide. If you've never assembled a 200-page buyer's guide, it turns out that it is an interesting
1:12.8	process to categorize and synthesize a massive amount of gear, and we learned a lot along the way.
1:20.1	We hope that you've had a chance to check out the guide by now, but if you haven't, you can
1:24.1	download the digital edition of the guide at blisterreview.com, and there are still
1:29.2	a quickly dwindling number of print editions of the guide that are still available for purchase.
1:34.9	In this conversation, I talked to Blister editors Sam Shaheen and Luke Kappa, who did a lot of the
1:41.1	heavy lifting on this guide with me. We discussed some of the most interesting things we learned along the way
1:46.7	and some of the arguments we had about what to include and what not to include in the guide.
1:52.5	We also talk about a few of the most head-scratching claims we saw
1:56.3	about products and some of the other buyer's guides out there,
1:59.9	including claims about the
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