Jonathan Ellsworth was in the Cascade mountains of Washington this week with K2 skier, McKenna Peterson, and K2 ski designer, Jed Yeiser, and after a great day of skiing, we sat down to talk about ski developing and prototyping; ski testing; our ski-binding shootout; biathlons; flip flips; & books.

TOPICS & TIMES:

• Skiing the Cascades (6:05)
• Arc — K2's R&D Center (9:42)
• Testing conditions / the snow (20:50)
• K2 Dispatch 120 (29:39)
• The testing process (31:29)
• Our alpine ski binding shootout (38:40)
• Flip flops (50:14)
• Biathlon (54:35)
• Books & WiFi passwords (59:30)
• What We’re Celebrating (1:06:28)

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