Welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors,

and a bunch of other stuff we like.

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

reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

It is hard to imagine somebody who loves skiing more than Tyler Curl.

And Tyler also happens to be one very hard-charging and versatile skier who has already

appeared in Matchstick production films and Teton Gravity Research movies. So for our latest installment of our

up-and-coming series, Tyler came out to Crested Butte and we sat down in Blister HQ to talk

about growing up skiing at Mount Rose, starting to help out at moment skis at the ripe old age of

12. We talk about Tyler's favorite skis, skiers, and

ski movies of all time, and a whole lot more. And it's also worth noting that Moment Ski's CEO,

Luke Jacobson, was also sitting in Blister HQ when I was talking to Tyler, and despite the fact that Luke said he'd just

sit there and be quiet, he started sending me some text messages, a few of which may or may not

have influenced some of my questions. And finally, I am sorry to say that we had a few issues

with the audio, and yes, of course, those issues were my fault.

And so while our terrific audio producer, Luke Alley, was able to get the sound really quite good,

things are going to sound a bit different than they normally do. And with that, let's go ahead

and get to my conversation with Tyler Curl well here we are

with Tyler Curl in Blister H.Q welcome thank you yeah it's good to having you

here and this conversation is probably been too long in common so I'm glad

we're doing this first question do you remember when we first met in person

probably say yeah but I was trying to remember the very first time it was definitely

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