Hey everybody, 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, before we get started, I want to ask you a little favor. over at blisterreview.com.

Now before we get started, I want to ask you a little favor.

We know that a ton of you are listening to these Gear 30 episodes each week,

and that number continues to grow.

So since you keep tuning back in,

then I would like to personally ask you to go leave us that five-star rating in iTunes. It's pretty literally the quickest and easiest thing you can do for us, and I mean,

hell, we made Paul Forward get up at like 5 a.m. this morning to record this episode, and then he

had to walk to work in 30 degrees below zero temperatures.

That is a true story.

So if Paul is going to be getting up before dawn and then putting on every single warm

layer he owns to go walk to work, seriously, I think you can take 30 seconds to leave that

five-star rating, right?

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I'm just going to go ahead and say thank you right now for that five-star rating and cheers to you.

Okay, so last week we talked about the most influential and the best ski gear of the past decade,

and now it's time to make our predictions about what gear is going to look like 10 years from now.

We are going to discuss which product categories have the most room for improvement, which products

will actually change the most by the end of the next decade, what gear will change the least,

and we wrap up with our wildest gear predictions for where gear maybe could be in 10 years.

We discuss all of this and more in a roundtable conversation with

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