The Pro's Gear: McKenna Peterson
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week, we sat down with McKenna Peterson, one of the stars of Matchstick Productions’ new film, The Stomping Grounds, to discuss her personal gear preferences; what ski equipment she’d most like to see get made; the topic of women-specific gear; the best ways to get more women involved in skiing; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Recommend Shop info: Blacksheep Sports (00:57)
- Kristin Sinnott on the Blister Summit (3:00)
- Praise / Roast of K2’s Jed Yeiser (9:01)
- What gear are you most particular about? (12:53)
- Skis (25:37)
- Ski length & which skis are you on most on most? (28:07)
- Backcountry skis: what are your design priorities (33:15)
- Telemark interlude (38:00)
- Women-specific gear (42:55)
- Bindings (55:14)
- Ski poles & avy packs (1:04:46)
- What We're Celebrating (1:08:51)
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- Recommended Shop: Blacksheep Sports
- Getting to Gunnison-Crested Butte: Flights
- Blister Summit Registration
- Subscribe to our Newsletter & Gear Giveaways
- Become a Blister Member / Get our Buyer’s Guide
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at |
| 0:15.0 | blisterreview.com. |
| 0:18.2 | Earlier this week, we sat down in Blister headquarters with one of the stars of Matchstick |
| 0:23.5 | Productions' new film, The Stomping Grounds, which is fantastic, to discuss her personal |
| 0:30.5 | gear preferences, the ski equipment she'd most like to see get made, we talk about the topic |
| 0:37.2 | of women's specific gear |
| 0:38.8 | and the best ways to get more women involved in skiing and more. |
| 0:44.7 | McKenna Peterson is a phenomenal skier. |
| 0:48.0 | She has been skiing literally her entire life. |
| 0:51.5 | And turns out she is a gearhead too. And this episode of Gear 30 is presented by |
| 0:58.6 | our Blister recommended shop, Black Sheep Sports in Munich, Germany. I talked to Sebastian |
| 1:05.4 | earlier this week, and here is some information straight from the man in charge. |
| 1:15.9 | Sebastian said, Black Sheep Sports is open again on a normal basis, |
| 1:19.8 | but we still recommend booking appointments for boot fittings, |
| 1:23.9 | because that is the best way to buy boots at our shop. |
| 1:29.9 | But if you are just stopping by and wanting to chat and have a beer while looking at skis, well, then you can just show up to Black Sheep Sports whenever you want. So if you are in |
| 1:37.4 | the Munich vicinity, head into Black Sheep Sports or check them out at Black SheepS sports dot d e and just a couple of other notes here |
| 1:48.9 | over on our bikes and big ideas podcast matt mansor and i spoke with the new world |
| 1:55.1 | cup d h overall mountain bike champion valley hole and we had a great conversation. So you should all |
| 2:02.6 | definitely check that out with Mr. Manzer and Valley and me over on our Bikes and Big Ideas podcast. |
| 2:11.2 | Also, you should become a Blister member if you would like to be the first to receive our brand new winter buyers guide |
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