New Backcountry Ski Gear & Culture

GEAR:30

BLISTER

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

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We're talking about new backcountry gear and some of the changes to backcountry ski culture with the founder of Bentgate, Greg Floyd. Greg founded Bentgate in Golden, Colorado back in 1994, and Bentgate has become a cornerstone shop in the front range of Colorado for all things skiing and climbing.

TOPICS & TIMES:

How Bentgate got its start (2:20)
How Greg has watched backcountry skiing culture change (6:05)
Bentgate’s Backcountry 101 sessions (7:23)
Sam Shaheen’s close call in Japan (19:04)
Some of Greg’s favorite AT gear (23:25)
Bentgate’s take on the Atomic / Salomon Shift binding (25:47)
G3 Zed binding (28:07)
Icelantic Skis (29:44)
22 Designs bindings (31:04)
Arc’teryx outerwear (32:00)
Flylow Gear (33:36)
Black Crows skis (34:32)
Climbing skins: G3 vs. Black Diamond vs. Pomoca vs. Contour (35:31)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Blister podcast, Gear 30.
0:08.7	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and as always, you can check us out online at
0:13.5	blisterreview.com.
0:15.9	Today we're talking backcountry skiing with the founder of Bentgate, Greg Floyd.
0:22.9	Greg founded Bentgate in Golden Colorado back in 1994, and Bentgate has really become a cornerstone shop in the front range of
0:29.0	Colorado for all things skiing and climbing. So our senior editor Sam Shaheen sat down with Greg at
0:35.4	Bentgate this week to talk about some of the
0:37.9	significant changes in backcountry ski culture that Greg's seen over the past 20 years
0:42.9	and what Bencate is doing to address those changes. And then, since this is of course gear 30,
0:49.4	Sam asked Greg about some of his favorite AT gear, some of the products that have stood out to him in terms
0:55.0	of durability and in terms of value, and then they get into what in the world is going on with
1:00.3	the category of climbing skins. As you'll soon see, Greg is a very candid guy and a very
1:06.3	passionate skier, so this proved to be a really interesting and insightful conversation.
1:11.7	Before we dive in, I want to just give a quick shout out to our Blister climbing podcast, All Things
1:16.9	Climbing. If you haven't checked it out yet, you really should. Our climbing editor, Dave Alley,
1:21.9	is doing a phenomenal job with it, and on the most recent episode of All Things Climbing,
1:26.9	he talks to the director of the documentary, Dirtbag most recent episode of All Things Climbing, he talks to the director
1:28.0	of the documentary, Dirtbag, the legend of Fred Becky.
1:32.0	And while it is always worthwhile to learn more details about the force of nature named Fred,
1:37.2	what I personally really loved about the episode was learning more about Dave's own interactions
1:41.6	and relationship with Fred.
1:43.6	So check that one out and subscribe to All Things Clim climbing, and I promise it'll be worth your time.
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