Hey everybody, happy new year and welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.

I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.

Now, each and every year, we do our annual Blister Best of Awards, but the time is right

to think about not just the past year, but the entire past decade. And so, when considering

the entire past decade, what was the most influential ski,

ski boot, and ski binding?

What was the best ski of the decade?

What were the biggest trends?

And what was the single best product of the decade?

In this episode, we discuss all of this and more. And in the comments section

in the show notes to this episode on our website, we'd love to hear what you think was the

most influential or best year of the decade and why. And as you'll hear me say at the end of this

episode, we are going to be rolling out these

same awards on the snowboard and apparel side of things. We will be posting a write-up on the

website this week where we will be revealing the answers of some of our other Blister reviewers,

and we've got a few other related topics up our sleeves, so stay tuned.

But for now, we're going to kick off this whole Best Gear of the Decade conversation

with me, Luke Kappa, and Sam Shaheen.

This is definitely a fun one, so let's go ahead and get right to it.

Okay, guys, well, here we are in Blister HQ with a fairly monumental task in front of us.

I got this bright idea that while we do spend a lot of time with our buyer's guides, you know, going through and

summing up some of our favorite bits of gear in a given season, turns out this is actually

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