18/19 All-Mountain & Frontside Skis
GEAR:30
BLISTER
4.9 • 809 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2018
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
We just finished testing a bunch of skis at Taos, and because of a closing-week snowstorm, we ended up getting on everything from very heavy, modified race skis, to a new, extremely light big mountain ski. So Blister editors Sam Shaheen and Luke Koppa join me to go over a number of the highlights, including the new Atomic Bent Chetler 100, the HEAD Supershape i.Titan, a new carver from DPS, the Black Crows Orb, and what might be my new personal favorite ski from Blizzard.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Shredding West Basin in a Hello Kitty onesie & snowblades (2:04)
- Atomic Bent Chetler 100 (5:48)
- Bent Chetler 100 vs. LINE Sick Day 104 (8:20)
- Renoun Citadel 106 (13:41)
- Blizzard Brahma (17:28)
- Update on the Fritschi Tecton (20:00)
- Black Crows Orb (22:15)
- HEAD SuperShape i.Titan (29:10)
- HEAD i.Speed Pro (33:10)
- DPS Cassiar 79 - “The Trainer” (35:34)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Blister podcast, Gear 30. |
| 0:08.4 | I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check us out online at blisterreview.com. |
| 0:14.9 | We just finished testing a bunch of skis in Touse, and because of an unexpected snowstorm, |
| 0:20.7 | we ended up getting on everything from very heavy modified race skis in Taos, and because of an unexpected snowstorm, we ended up getting on |
| 0:21.6 | everything from very heavy, modified race skis to a new, extremely light, big mountain ski. |
| 0:28.2 | So today on the podcast, Blister editors Sam Shaheen and Luke Kappa joined me to go over a number |
| 0:32.9 | of the highlights, including the new Atomic Ben Chetler 100, the head super shape I Titan, a new |
| 0:40.2 | carver from DPS, the Black Crow's Orb, and what might be my new personal favorite ski from |
| 0:47.4 | Blizzard. |
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