GEAR:30 Podcast

This is where we geek out hard & go deep into the details about the most important outdoor gear.

Recent Episodes:

On this GEAR:30 episode, we are back with Kai Palkeinen, founder of Pulse Boot Lab, to hear about what Kai’s been up to since we last talked, including opening a third location in Collingwood; the evolution of Pulse and what they have in mind for the future; their process for developing and refining some 3D printing technology that is being applied to more than just ski boots; what it means to spend the day fitting race boots; why liners are everything, subjective, and also circular (?); Kai’s thoughts on BOA dials in ski boots, and more.
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Jonathan Ellsworth & Dylan Wood review the Atomic Hawx Ultra XTD 130 BOA for Blister
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On GEAR:30, Jonathan is joined by Alex and Matt from Powder7 in Golden, Colorado, to talk about shop life, gear, the price of single-day lift passes, and more. Then Blister bike editor, David Golay, jumps on to tell his Crashes & Close Calls story.
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On GEAR:30, we’re talking ski gear, customer trends, & sustainability initiatives (from the POV of a shop owner) with Mike Donohue of Outdoor Gear Exchange, our Blister Recommended Shop in Burlington, Vermont. And we have a great listener-submitted story for “Crashes & Close Calls.”
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Jonathan Ellsworth, Luke Koppa, Kara Williard, and Dylan Wood discuss some of the notable gear they’ve been reviewing this season. They also discuss Christmas quesadillas; whether it’s okay to put sweaty ski socks on boot dryers; and we launch a new GEAR:30 segment called Crashes & Close Calls.
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Marshal Olson of Heritage Lab skis comes on Blister's GEAR:30 podcast to provide an overview of the brand, how it started, his goals, the 2022-2023 Heritage Lab ski lineup, and a whole lot more
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on Blister's GEAR:30 podcast, we talk with Folsom Custom Skis CEO, Mike McCabe, about Folsom's 2022-2023 ski lineup, their new UltraLITE touring ski construction, using graphene in skis, new Cash 93 and G-Wagon ski shapes, and more
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Those waterproof & breathability ratings on the tags of that rain jacket or those ski pants you’re about to buy: where did they come from? What’s the history? And how relevant are those standards to what you actually do outside? On GEAR:30, we discuss all of this and more with Dr. Lauren Cooper, who is heading up our Blister Labs work on technical apparel, and this conversation is sure to get you thinking.
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