WNDR Alpine’s New Skis

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BLISTER

Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

4FRNT Skis founder, Matt Sterbenz, recently launched WNDR Alpine, a company that’s incorporating biotech into skis. So we sat down with Sterbenz and WNDR’s brand manager, Xan Marshland, to discuss the creation of and the future plans for WNDR Alpine; its relation to the biotech company, Checkerspot; and we dive deep into the details of their new ski, the Intention 110, which is available now for pre-order.

To learn more about WNDR Alpine and its relation to the Berkely-based biotech company Checkerspot, check out our latest BLISTER Podcast with Sterbenz and Checkerspot’s co-founder & CEO, Charlie Dimmler.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Matt’s background & founding 4FRNT (3:08)
Xan’s background (8:36)
What is WNDR Alpine? (16:20)
The first ski: the Intention 110 (22:00)
Why start with a backcountry ski? (22:32)
Comparable skis to the Intention 110? (29:22)
Materials (41:08)
Weight (49:34)
Mount point (56:54)
Price (1:00:06)
Bindings (1:04:50)
Where to see the skis & ship dates (1:07:07)
Future plans for WNDR? (1:08:54)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:11.1	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing
0:15.7	and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:21.5	Today's episode is essentially part two of a conversation that we posted earlier this
0:26.7	week over on our Blister podcast channel.
0:29.9	And in that conversation, we sat down in Blister H.Q with Charlie Dimler, the co-founder
0:35.6	and CEO of the Berkeley-based biotech company, Checkerspot,
0:40.1	and also Wonder Alpine founder, as well as Forefront Ski's founder, Matt Sturban's,
0:46.3	to talk about the creation of Wonder Alpine and its relation to and the mission of Checkerspot.
0:53.5	And in this conversation, part two, we now are going to drill down on the creation and the
1:00.2	future of Wonder Alpine with Matt Sturban's and Zan Marshland.
1:04.8	And as you would expect, we are going to go into a whole lot of detail about their
1:09.9	initial new ski offering,
1:11.8	the intention 110. And so if you haven't yet listened to the Checkerspot episode that we
1:18.3	posted over on the Blister podcast, you might want to do that first. Or you could start with
1:23.9	this Skiar 30 episode and then go get the broader backstory on the tech that
1:28.6	we'll be talking about here. So choose your own adventure on that front, but here we're going to
1:34.9	go ahead and get to the conversation that I had last Saturday at Blister headquarters in
1:39.8	Elevation Hotel in Mount Crested Butte with Matt Sturban's and Zan Marshland.
1:47.5	Well, here we are. We are back in Blister headquarters for round two talking about Checkerspot
1:55.3	and Wonder Alpine. Originally, I think we thought the plan was going to be record this bigger conversation about
2:05.4	checker spot and the background and the backstory there then we were going to eat some food
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