WNDR Alpine’s 20/21 Lineup with Matt Sterbenz, Pep Fujas, & Xan Marshland
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Matt Sterbenz, Pep Fujas, and Xan Marshland came to Crested Butte and sat down with us in Blister HQ to fill us in on WNDR Alpine’s new materials, new updates to the Intention 110, and their brand new ski, the Vital 100. And you’ll also hear some stories about Matt and Pep competing in slopestyle events against each other back in the day, and more.
To learn more about the WNDR Alpine backstory, check out these other conversations we’ve had with them:
- Blister Podcast, Ep. 98: Origins & science behind WNDR
- GEAR:30, Ep. 63: Ski talk with Sterbenz & Xan
- Blister Podcast, Ep. 100: Pep Fujas on how & why he got involved
TOPICS & TIMES
- WNDR Alpine’s background (6:55)
- What’s been easy, what’s been hard? (16:54)
- Greenwashing (19:47)
- Updates to the Intention 110 (30:01)
- New Vital 100 (41:27)
- Vital 120? (45:57)
- Fujas vs. Sterbenz in slopestyle comps (50:40)
- More on the Vital 100 (56:55)
- The WNDR Roost event (1:01:19)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth and you can check out everything we're up to, including all of our other podcasts over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:22.6 | Well, this week, Matt Sturban's, Pepfugis, and Zan Marshallin paid us a visit in Crested |
| 0:28.8 | Butte and sat down with us in our Blister headquarters in Elevation Hotel to catch us up |
| 0:35.4 | on everything that's been going on at Wonder Alpine since this new ski |
| 0:40.4 | company was launched a little over one year ago. And if you'd like to hear more about the |
| 0:47.1 | very interesting Wonder Alpine backstory, then you should check out episodes number 98 and episode number 100 over on our Blister podcast, |
| 0:57.7 | and then also episode number 63 of this very Gear 30 podcast. |
| 1:03.8 | And we'll include links to those particular episodes in the show notes of this episode. |
| 1:09.4 | You see how that works? |
| 1:11.0 | Anyway, in the conversation we just had this week, |
| 1:14.6 | we talk about Wonder Alpine's new materials, |
| 1:18.0 | the new updates to the Intention 110, |
| 1:21.9 | and we also get the lowdown on their brand new ski |
| 1:25.0 | called the Vital 100. |
| 1:27.9 | And in between all of that, |
| 1:29.7 | you're going to hear some stories about Matt and Pep competing |
| 1:33.0 | in Slope Style events against each other back in the day. |
| 1:36.8 | And of course, there's one or two of Sturban's signature tangential gems, |
| 1:42.7 | we'll call them, that are sprinkled in here, you know, and those just |
| 1:47.0 | always really tie the room together. And so with that, let's go ahead and get to my conversation |
| 1:52.8 | with Matt and Pep and Zan about what is going on at Wonder Alpine. |
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