The Pro's Gear: Hadley Hammer
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
We talk to professional skier, Hadley Hammer, about the gear she’s most & least picky about; her own gear preferences; some of the keys to happiness; and we fight about The Queen’s Gambit.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- The Queen’s Gambit (3:04)
- Binge-listening to GEAR:30 (11:55)
- What gear are you the pickiest about? (18:03)
- Inclusion, Diversity, & Ski Boots (22:36)
- Inbounds skis & ski length (29:56)
- Hadley’s background (34:12)
- Backcountry skis: design priorities (38:20)
- Line Pandora 104 & 110 (42:26)
- Mount points (47:55)
- Least picky about? (53:48)
- What We're Celebrating (1:08:51)
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| 0:00.0 | What's up everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over |
| 0:16.1 | at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:19.7 | Okay, today we've got another episode of The Pros gear, where we talk to some industry |
| 0:26.5 | professionals to learn more about their own personal gear preferences. |
| 0:32.3 | And today it is Hadley Hammer's turn. |
| 0:35.8 | Hadley and I recorded this conversation on November 24th, and in this |
| 0:40.9 | conversation, we talk a bit about her own background in skiing and when she got started, |
| 0:47.0 | and then we do our thing and get her take on all of this different ski equipment. But before we get into all the gear stuff, we had to have |
| 0:57.3 | it out about the Queen's Gambit. And you'll hear why we needed to do that once we get going here. |
| 1:04.4 | So today, Hadley Hammer, as always, saying some really smart and insightful things. And I think you all are going to enjoy this |
| 1:12.7 | conversation and the other thing you're going to hear me say in this conversation again we |
| 1:17.4 | recorded it on November 24th so I had this talk with Hadley and then went skiing for the first |
| 1:26.3 | time this season and have been going pretty much every |
| 1:29.6 | day since. |
| 1:30.8 | And it has been amazing to be back riding chairlifts and carving up groomers. |
| 1:36.8 | And we've already been working through a number of skis and ski boots. |
| 1:41.9 | And you guys are about to see an avalanche of flash reviews and first |
| 1:48.0 | looks on Blister. And it has just been so good to be getting back on chair lifts and |
| 1:54.1 | carving up some turns, remembering how to ski like one does at the start of every ski season. |
| 2:00.3 | And if you would like to come do some skiing with us at any point this season or for our upcoming Blister Summit, which is in February, well, we do have this guide getting here, Gunnison and Crested Butte, and there is a ton of really useful information in there. |
| 2:19.5 | It's got all of the up-to-date flight information into the Gunnison Airport. |
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