Your Questions + What We’re Celebrating
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 844 Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Luke Koppa and Jonathan Ellsworth answer your questions and discuss our preferred gear for skiing funky spring / summer snow; what we’re reading; ski knickers?; mountain bike shoes; ski boot liners & durability; and more.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- On our current state of affairs (1:03)
- Eating Food vs Photosynthesis? (6:33)
- Ski-Touring Knickers? (10:07)
- How long should a ski boot liner last? (13:7)
- What is Jonathan reading? (19:44)
- The best type of ski for funky, summer snow? (24:36)
- Mtn Bike Shoes (30:40)
- Climbing Skins 101 - upcoming article (34:06)
- What we’re celebrating (34:38)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, |
| 0:12.0 | the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing and all of our other |
| 0:18.1 | podcasts over at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:22.9 | This week, Luke Kappa and I sat down in our blister headquarters, |
| 0:27.3 | which is located in Elevation Hotel, which is right next to the chairlifts here in |
| 0:32.6 | Mount Crested Bute, to answer some of the questions that you submitted, and along the way we discuss our |
| 0:40.4 | preferred gear for skiing in funky spring and summer snow, we talk about what we're reading, |
| 0:47.3 | we talk about ski knickers, and mountain bike shoes, and ski boot liners and durability and more. |
| 0:56.3 | And so let's just go ahead and get right to it. |
| 1:01.7 | Well, Lou Kappa, it's you. |
| 1:04.8 | Yep, we're back. |
| 1:06.1 | We are back. |
| 1:07.7 | Here in Blister headquarters in Elevation Hotel, and it is time for another edition of |
| 1:16.7 | listener questions and our answers, sometimes known as a mailbag, but young Luke was unfamiliar with the term like mailbag? |
| 1:29.7 | No. |
| 1:30.7 | I'd heard like voicemail episode. |
| 1:32.9 | Voicemail episode? |
| 1:34.2 | Yeah, because for some reason that's what like podcasts first started calling it. |
| 1:39.8 | Like people would call in leave voicemails and then answer like that. |
| 1:43.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:46.0 | You're the only person I know who says mailbag. |
| 1:47.8 | Okay. |
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