Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,

and you can check out everything. We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

So I think today's conversation is kind of a quintessential gear 30 episode.

We are going to be dorking out about gear that almost never gets discussed in the same

conversation, and that would be ski bindings and snowboard bindings and splitboard bindings.

But at our last blister summit, I couldn't shake the thought that doing sort of a mash-up conversation about these different products

might spark some interesting new thoughts and ideas. I think that happened. And a big part of

the reason that happened goes out to our very interesting

guests, which you are about to hear from, which include Will Ritter from Spark R&D, Royal

White from Burton, Andy Merriman from ATK bindings, and Kobe Nash from a very new company,

Alpenflow Design. So even if this sounds a little strange,

give this one a shot because I think the true gear dorks out there really going to enjoy this one.

Now, I want to give a shout out to a few of our latest Blister Plus members, and man, we have

had a bunch of people signing up in the last

48 hours, and that includes Susan from the great state of Washington, Ethan from Sammamish, Washington,

he just renewed his membership, we've got John from Travelers Rest, South Carolina, Umberto from Inclined Village, Nevada,

William from New York, New York, Alexander and Meg from Renton, Washington, Savannah from

Escanaba, Michigan, Sadia and Juan Carlos from Buena Vista, Colorado.

Sorry, Sadia and Juan Carlos.

I just cannot pronounce it, Buena Vista.

I apologize, but I don't.

And then finally for now, we'll give a shout out to Lauren from Danvers, Massachusetts,

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