BLISTER Podcast

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The Blister Podcast is Blister Review’s series of weekly conversations with the most fascinating and passionate people in the outdoor sports world. We’ll talk with top-level skiers, climbers, mountain bikers, product designers, and various Blister reviewers about their sport, their industry, and whatever else is on their minds—or ours.

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11.23.2020

Athletic Brewing Company is a fast-growing brand in an emerging category that is about to blow up: non-alcoholic craft beer. So we talked to Athletic Brewing’s founder about why he started the company; the stigma of not drinking; why “near ...

BLISTER Podcast episodes:

11.23.2020 Athletic Brewing Company Founder, Bill Shufelt Athletic Brewing Company is a fast-growing brand in an emerging category that is about to blow up: non-alcoholic craft beer. So we talked to Athletic Brewing’s founder about why he started the company; the stigma of not drinking; why “near ...
11.16.2020 Reviewing the News w/ Cody Townsend (Nov 2020) Today we are launching a new segment on the Blister Podcast. Each month, Cody Townsend and Jonathan Ellsworth will discuss some of the biggest stories and most interesting news headlines from the world of outdoor sports, and on occasion, the ...
11.09.2020 Adaptive Sports & Recreation: Past, Present, & Future Did you know that 1 out of 5 people in the United States have a disability? 20 percent. And that is just one of the reasons why those of us who love and care about outdoor recreation really ought to ...
11.02.2020 Mali Noyes & Lani Bruntz ski The Wurl The Wurl — The Wasatch Ultimate Ridge Linkup — has gained quite a lot of attention in the trail running and climbing worlds, but it had never been done in the winter, and Mali Noyes and Lani Bruntz set out ...
10.26.2020 Hunt to Eat founder, Mahting Putelis This is another installment in our series on food, food systems, and food movements, and we have included links below to all of the really interesting and diverse range of conversations we’ve had this year on these topics. Our guest ...
10.19.2020 Blister Speaker Series 3.1: Cody Townsend Last week Cody Townsend came to Western Colorado University for our Blister Speaker Series and spoke about why his education has been so beneficial to his career; social media and the new responsibilities of athletes today; starting & growing a ...
10.12.2020 Stan Rey & Alexi Godbout on Skiing Pillows; Spit Cups; & Their New Film We’ve got a really fun one for you today — Alexi Godbout and Stan Rey are on the show talking about their new film, Follow the Forecast, which features a bunch of good friends who happen to be really good ...
10.05.2020 Black Crows Skis co-founder, Camille Jaccoux Our guest today is Camille Jaccoux, the co-founder of Black Crows Skis. This is Camille’s 2nd time on the Blister Podcast, and you should check out Blister Podcast ep. 64, where I talked to Camille and Black Crows head ski ...
09.21.2020 Will Gadd on The Last Ascent + Doing all the Sports Will Gadd has established a number of the hardest mixed ice climbing lines in the world; set the world distance record for paragliding (twice); kayaked down dozens of first ascents across North America; and won the Canadian National Sport-Climbing Championships ...
09.14.2020 Jeremy Jones on His New Film, Purple Mountains We talk to snowboarder & Protect Our Winters founder, Jeremy Jones, about his new film, Purple Mountains; the importance of reviving a lost art; and more. Watch a video of this conversation on our YouTube channel Watch the trailer for ...
08.31.2020 Paul Forward on Hunting, Climate Advocacy, & Conservation Blister reviewer, Paul Forward, is a lifelong hunter. Jonathan Ellsworth has been a vegetarian for over 20 years. So how much common ground do they share? We discuss that plus Paul’s latest solo hunt; why he only hunts with a ...
08.17.2020 Adventures of a Hemophiliac: Chris Bombardier on Climbing Mount Everest On January 6, 2018, Chris Bombardier became the first person with hemophilia to complete all Seven Summits, and tomorrow, a film comes out called Bombardier Blood that tells Chris’ story and homes in on his attempt to summit Mt. Everest. ...
08.10.2020 Current State of the Camping Industry “Camping” is a massive industry, and a lot goes on under that one name. So today we discuss who’s doing it; what, exactly, people are doing; the different segments of camping; the most important trends; some of the current problems ...
08.03.2020 Jeremy Bloom on Winning, Happiness, & The Weight of Gold Jeremy Bloom is a 3-time world champion mogul skier, a 2-time Olympian, an 11-time World Cup gold medalist, and an All-American football player that was drafted into the NFL. He's also the executive producer of an important new film, The ...
07.28.2020 National Brotherhood of Skiers co-founder & U.S. Ski Hall of Fame inductee, Art Clay Art Clay is the co-founder of the National Brotherhood of Skiers, and he and his NBS co-founder, Ben Finley, are the first African Americans to be inducted into the US Ski-Snowboard Hall of Fame. This past weekend, Jonathan Ellswoth sat ...
07.13.2020 Skid Row Running Club founder, Judge Craig Mitchell Whether or not you’re a runner, you ought to know about the Skid Row Running Club and the Skid Row Marathon. We talk to the club founder, Judge Craig Mitchell, about why he started the club; his background; the duty ...
07.06.2020 Olympian Dotsie Bausch on Cycling, Switch4Good, & the Dairy Industry Dotsie Bausch is a 7-time USA Cycling National Champion, an Olympic medalist, a featured athlete in the film, The Game Changers, and the executive director of Switch4Good. We talked to Dotsie about her very unusual path to an Olympic podium; ...
06.29.2020 What You Need to Know - and Do - about the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) You are probably familiar with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), but what do you know about the arguably more important National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)? NEPA is a critical piece of legislation, and each of us needs to understand what ...
06.22.2020 BlackAFinSTEM, Birders, & Bees BlackAFinSTEM was started to encourage and support Black individuals who are working in — or who are just passionate about — the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, and also to encourage, support, and increase the visibility of Black ...
06.15.2020 Bees, Green Lawns, “Perfect” Apples, & the Reinvention of Farming Last week on the show we talked to Sanjay Rawal about his new film, Gather, which examines the growing food sovereignty movement among Native American tribes across the United States. And this week, we are talking about why and how ...
06.09.2020 Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, & the Film, Gather Today we are talking with our friend, Sanjay Rawal, about his new film, Gather. Sanjay is a fantastic story teller and a maker of films that might seem to have a pretty specific focus, but actually have wide-ranging applicability and ...
05.26.2020 How to Recreate Responsibly in the Time of COVID As a number of locations are beginning to relax travel restrictions and are able to welcome visitors back, we wanted to discuss some important reminders and best practices for recreating responsibly in this time of COVID. If you do not ...
05.19.2020 Geoff McFetridge on The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner In the latest installment of our Blister Book Club, we talk with the artist, Geoff McFetridge, about Jack Turner’s book, The Abstract Wild. We discuss why Geoff selected this book; why it isn’t designed to be a comfortable read; why ...
05.04.2020 On the State of Heli Skiing: Henry Munter, Chugach Powder Guides Henry Munter is a lead heli guide and the general manager of Chugach Powder Guides in Girdwood, AK. We talk with him about making the call to shut down operations right as the heli season was in full swing; the ...
04.20.2020 X Games Real Ski 2020 Gold Medalist, Jake Mageau The X Games Real Ski competition is an invitation-only event, where some of the top skiers in the world go out and put together a 90-second street edit. The creativity and talent on display in real ski is always bonkers, ...
04.13.2020 SKI INC. 2020: The Current State & Future of the Ski Industry The ski industry has undergone rapid changes in the past several years, and we are currently in another unprecedented moment with the COVID-19 pandemic. So to help us better understand the past, present, and future of the ski industry, we ...
04.07.2020 Crash Course: How to Telemark Ski, Part 1 Baby giraffes? Organic bamboo scissors? Superman? Since we now have to learn how to tele ski and shoot a tele video (we’ll explain in the episode), we’re crowdsourcing a crash course in what we need to know to avoid embarrassing ...
03.30.2020 Catching Up with Caite Zeliff We all probably need more Caite Zeliff in our lives. (And if you didn’t already know this, you definitely need to listen to this conversation.) Caite is a former ski racer turned big mountain skier. She won the first ever ...
03.23.2020 Up & Coming? FWT World Champion, Isaac Freeland As part of our Up & Coming Series, we had intended to talk to Isaac Freeland, because he is a very good skier and he was definitely on his way up. But then Isaac threw us a curve ball by ...
03.16.2020 Without Precedent: COVID-19, Ski Area Closures, & Ski Towns This past weekend, something happened that has never happened in the history of resort skiing: in the span of 12 hours, most ski areas abruptly suspended operations. So on our latest #blisterpodcast, we talked to veteran ski industry reporter, Jason ...
03.09.2020 Bobby Brown on Big Air & Backcountry Skiing Bobby Brown is one of the best slopestyle and big-air comp skiers of all time, but he’s currently focused on finding out what he’s capable of in the backcountry. So I talked to Bobby about his trajectory; the art of ...
03.03.2020 Blister Speaker Series 2.5: Tommy Caldwell Last week at our monthly Blister Speaker Series at Western Colorado University, in Gunnison, Tommy Caldwell spoke in front of a packed auditorium about speed climbing & setting the speed record on the Nose with Alex Honnold; strength vs. experience; ...
02.17.2020 Mtn Guide Rob Coppolillo on Backcountry Travel, Education, & Gear We talk to IFMGA / AMGA mountain guide, Rob Coppolillo (author of The Mountain Guide Manual and the new book, The Ski Guide Manual) about how he got into guiding; the current state of backcountry and avalanche education; his take ...
01.27.2020 Blister Speaker Series 2.4: Wendy Fisher Wendy Fisher is one of the all-time greats. She is a two-time World Extreme Skiing Champion; was on the U.S. Ski Team; filmed with Warren Miller and MSP; and played a huge role in showing the world what women could ...
01.20.2020 Thor Verdonk: A Life in Ski & Ski Boot Design In the world of ski and ski boot design, Thor Verdonk is well known and very well respected. So we talked to Thor about his background, his 25+ year career with the Rossignol Group and how he became the Global ...
01.14.2020 Geoff McFetridge: Artist, Designer, Skater, Skier Geoff McFetridge is an iconic designer and visual artist who’s worked with the Beastie Boys, Pharrell Williams, Spike Jonez and Rick Rubin, and companies ranging from Patagonia, Nike, the New York Times, Oreo, and many more. Geoff is also a ...
01.06.2020 Ski & Snowboard Industry Predictions for the New Decade What will the ski & snowboard industry look like 10 years from now? Will backcountry skiing and splitboarding keep growing? Will indoor ski areas become more common? Will there be fewer or more ski companies in existence 10 years from ...
12.30.2019 Our 2020 New Year’s Resolutions We’ve been thinking and talking about New Year’s Resolutions, so in this episode, we ask a number of BLISTER reviewers what they’re pursuing in this new year and new decade. And we’d love to hear what your plans are for ...
12.23.2019 New Year’s Resolutions with Brendan Leonard New Year’s Resolutions — are you into them, or do you avoid them like the plague? A recent conversation with Brendan Leonard (semi-rad.com) got us thinking that we should take a more creative approach to New Year’s Resolutions and goals, ...
12.10.2019 Up & Coming: Tyler Curle We’re not sure that anyone loves skiing more than Tyler Curle, and Tyler also happens to be one very hard-charging and versatile skier who has appeared in Matchstick films and TGR films. So for our latest installment of our Up ...
12.03.2019 Eric Pollard on Skiing, Creating, & Evolving When it comes to skiing, product design, filmmaking, and art, few people have exhibited a more distinctive style than Eric Pollard. But for someone who has been working at the forefront of these mediums for about 20 years, we know ...
11.26.2019 ‘Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season’ with TGR’s Steve Jones Think you know Lindsey Vonn’s story? Think again. Most of us know Vonn as one of the greatest ski racers of all time — and probably the toughest. But in the new HBO film, Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season, Vonn ...
11.18.2019 Reporter Jason Blevins on Backcountry.com Jason Blevins of the Colorado Sun broke the story about backcountry.com’s practices around trademark issues, so we talk to Jason about how this story got on his radar; the specifics of what backcountry.com was doing; how common or uncommon these ...
11.11.2019 Blister Speaker Series 2.3: Moment Skis CEO, Luke Jacobson In our latest BLISTER Speaker Series at Western Colorado University, Moment Skis CEO, Luke Jacobson, talks about managing the significant growth of this indie brand; manufacturing in Sparks, Nevada; crucial decisions he’s had to make; how he would assess those ...
11.04.2019 Rachael Burks on Skiing & Shakespeare & Sweatpants & More Fact: we all need to strive to be more like Rachael Burks. Rachael is known for skiing burly lines and her signature backflip, but she is also known for her boundless enthusiasm — and in this conversation, that enthusiasm is ...
10.22.2019 'Blink of an Eye' writer & director, Paul Taublieb If the story told in the new film Blink of an Eye weren’t true, nobody would believe it. Friendship, brotherhood, heroes, triumph, tragedy, and redemption are the topics, and we discuss all of them on our latest Blister Podcast with ...
10.15.2019 Blister Speaker Series 2.2: Honnold Foundation ED, Dory Trimble When world-renowned climber, Alex Honnold, was looking for a new executive director for his Honnold Foundation, he tapped Dory Trimble. And with the massive success of the film, Free Solo, Dory has guided what started as Alex's small, personal passion ...
10.08.2019 Dash Longe on Skiing, Ski Films, & Ski Design Dash Longe is a skier who’s been doing it — and going big — for a long time. And tomorrow is the online release of Dash’s latest film, Stone’s Throw. So I spoke to Dash about his new film and ...
09.30.2019 Adventure Photographer, Corey Rich Adventure photographer, Corey Rich, has spent a lot of time hanging out with and documenting some of the most interesting and amazing athletes in the world. And he is exceptionally good at talking about those experiences, so you are in ...
09.24.2019 J Skis founder, Jason Levinthal We’ve got J Skis founder, Jason Levinthal, back on the show, and we’re going to be doing things a bit differently than we normally do. Last week we invited you to submit any questions that you might have for J, ...

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BLISTER Podcast episodes:

Athletic Brewing Company Founder, Bill Shufelt

Reviewing the News w/ Cody Townsend (Nov 2020)

Adaptive Sports & Recreation: Past, Present, & Future

Mali Noyes & Lani Bruntz ski The Wurl

Hunt to Eat founder, Mahting Putelis

Blister Speaker Series 3.1: Cody Townsend

Stan Rey & Alexi Godbout on Skiing Pillows; Spit Cups; & Their New Film

Black Crows Skis co-founder, Camille Jaccoux

Will Gadd on The Last Ascent + Doing all the Sports

Jeremy Jones on His New Film, Purple Mountains

Paul Forward on Hunting, Climate Advocacy, & Conservation

Adventures of a Hemophiliac: Chris Bombardier on Climbing Mount Everest

Current State of the Camping Industry

Jeremy Bloom on Winning, Happiness, & The Weight of Gold

National Brotherhood of Skiers co-founder & U.S. Ski Hall of Fame inductee, Art Clay

Skid Row Running Club founder, Judge Craig Mitchell

Olympian Dotsie Bausch on Cycling, Switch4Good, & the Dairy Industry

What You Need to Know - and Do - about the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA)

BlackAFinSTEM, Birders, & Bees

Bees, Green Lawns, “Perfect” Apples, & the Reinvention of Farming

Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Rights, & the Film, Gather

How to Recreate Responsibly in the Time of COVID

Geoff McFetridge on The Abstract Wild by Jack Turner

On the State of Heli Skiing: Henry Munter, Chugach Powder Guides

X Games Real Ski 2020 Gold Medalist, Jake Mageau

SKI INC. 2020: The Current State & Future of the Ski Industry

Crash Course: How to Telemark Ski, Part 1

Catching Up with Caite Zeliff

Up & Coming? FWT World Champion, Isaac Freeland

Without Precedent: COVID-19, Ski Area Closures, & Ski Towns

Bobby Brown on Big Air & Backcountry Skiing

Blister Speaker Series 2.5: Tommy Caldwell

Mtn Guide Rob Coppolillo on Backcountry Travel, Education, & Gear

Blister Speaker Series 2.4: Wendy Fisher

Thor Verdonk: A Life in Ski & Ski Boot Design

Geoff McFetridge: Artist, Designer, Skater, Skier

Ski & Snowboard Industry Predictions for the New Decade

Our 2020 New Year’s Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions with Brendan Leonard

Up & Coming: Tyler Curle

Eric Pollard on Skiing, Creating, & Evolving

‘Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season’ with TGR’s Steve Jones

Reporter Jason Blevins on Backcountry.com

Blister Speaker Series 2.3: Moment Skis CEO, Luke Jacobson

Rachael Burks on Skiing & Shakespeare & Sweatpants & More

'Blink of an Eye' writer & director, Paul Taublieb

Blister Speaker Series 2.2: Honnold Foundation ED, Dory Trimble

Dash Longe on Skiing, Ski Films, & Ski Design

Adventure Photographer, Corey Rich

J Skis founder, Jason Levinthal

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