Outdoor Retailer / SIA Highlights

GEAR:30

BLISTER

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4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a roundtable recap from the Outdoor Retailer / SIA show in Denver with five of our editors and reviewers about some of the most interesting new gear we saw at the show.

We hope you’d been following us along on instagram, because we put up about a hundred Insta stories that captured pretty well the highlights of what we were seeing. So if you aren’t following us on instagram, you can find us at @blisterreview.

For this round table conversation, I was joined by reviewers Sascha Anastas, Kristin Sinnott, Sam Shaheen, and Luke Koppa. We talk about a ton of gear, so check our show notes to this episode (below) or on your phone if you want to jump around in our conversation.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Thoughts on the new combination of OR and SIA (2:10)
Trade Show Awards - They're Still Dumb (7:00)
Women’s ski trends (8:20)
New developments from Gore (11:18)
Tecnica’s new Zero G boots (14:00)
Mogul Skis (16:48)
Lightweight Inbounds Ski Boots: HEAD Kore LYT, K2 Recon 130, Hawx Ultra 130, Nordica Pro Machine (17:11)
Lightweight AT Boots: HEAD Kore boot, Fischer Ranger Free, Rossignol All Track LT (20:48)
Ski Bindings: G3 Zed, Marker Alpinist, Black Diamond / ATK (23:06)
New Skis: Volkl Mantra M5, Rossignol Experience 94, Atomic Vantage 97, Armada Invictus 99, Blizzard Rustler 9 & Sheeva 9, Armada Trace 98, new Line Pandora (26:18)
New Light & Playful Skis: Atomic Backland 107, Scott Scrapper 105, Atomic Bent Chetler 120 & 100 (31:16)
Products We’d Most Want to Steal (33:11)
Outerwear: the most intriguing pieces we saw (39:46)
New Avi Pack: the Scott Backcountry Patrol AP 30 (46:15)

This episode is presented by Marble Brewery

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network.
0:09.0	I guess we can start saying that since we now have three weekly podcast programs,
0:14.0	this one Gear 30, the original Blister podcast, and our newest edition, All Things Climbing.
0:25.8	I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and as always, you can check us out online at blisterreview.com.
0:29.3	Today's episode is a roundtable recap from Denver with four other Blister reviewers, where we
0:35.1	start to sort out some of the most interesting new gear we saw
0:38.1	at the outdoor retailers slash SIA trade show.
0:42.0	We hope you've been following us along on Instagram because we put up about a hundred
0:46.0	insta stories that captured pretty well, I think, the highlights of what we were seeing.
0:51.2	So if you aren't following us on Instagram, you can find us at
0:54.7	at Blister Review. For this roundtable conversation, I was joined by reviewers Sasha Anastis,
1:02.3	Kristen Sinat, Sam Shaheen, and Luke Kappa. We talk about a ton of gear, so check our show
1:08.1	notes to this episode on the website or on your phone if you want
1:12.0	to jump around in our conversation.
1:14.7	This On the Road episode of Gear 30 is presented by Marble Brewery, and the big news that we've
1:20.3	been sitting on for a while now is that Marble's Head Brewer Joshua Trujillo has actually
1:25.9	been brewing up a specific beer for us. When Justin
1:29.6	Bob and I hung out with Joshua at the brewery, I told him about my love of scotch ails and that
1:35.7	he and Marble ought to do one. And then a couple weeks later, I got an email from Joshua saying
1:40.9	that he'd been working on a scotch ale for me and that it ought to be ready in a few
1:45.3	more weeks. So that is all pretty damn awesome and I can't wait to see what Joshua came up with.
1:51.8	But for now, go to marble brewery.com to check out all of Marble's offerings and we're going to check
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