On December 27, 2025, the Telluride Ski Patrol went on strike. Chuck Horning, the owner of Telluride Ski Resort, then closed the ski area indefinitely. So what is going on in Telluride? What does it mean for the town and residents of Telluride? And what does this strike — and others — say about the current state of mountain towns and the ski-resort industry? To discuss all of these things and more, we are talking with ski-industry reporter, Jason Blevins, the co-founder of the Colorado Sun, and the man behind Blevins’ Corner on our ‘Reviewing the News’ series.

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We’d love for you to share with us the stories or topics you’d like us to cover next month on Reviewing the News; ask your most pressing mountain town advice questions, or offer your hot takes for us to rate. You can email those to us here.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

BLISTER+ Changes starting January 1st (1:30)

Get CARV (1:56)

What’s Going On in Telluride? (3:00)

How Did We Get Here? (5:19)

What is Telluride Ski Patrol Asking For? (7:10)

Who is Being Unreasonable? (8:46)

The Numbers Behind the Request (11:58)

Other Potential Costs (18:16)

Is Crazy still Better than Corporate? (21:39)

Why Won’t Chuck Just Sell the Ski Area? (23:19)

What is the Community Saying? (26:17)

Will We See more Strikes in the Industry? (32:10)

Billionaires & Ski Towns (33:34)

Blevins’ Prediction for Telluride (39:29)

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Starting January 1, 2026, we’ve got some big BLISTER+ updates: we’ve heard your requests, and we’ve been able to add an additional 20 outdoor activities to BLISTER+, bringing the number up to 50 outdoor activities that are covered globally. So Jonathan Ellsworth and Kristin Sinnott discuss that, then talk about the 2026 Blister Summit that’s happening at Snowbird on April 13, 2026.

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We’d love for you to share with us the stories or topics you’d like us to cover next month on Reviewing the News; ask your most pressing mountain town advice questions, or offer your hot takes for us to rate. You can email those to us here.

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New BLISTER+ Members (1:58)

BLISTER+ Changes starting January 1st (5:38)

Blister Summit 2026 Updates (26:28)

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It’s hard to believe, but this week marks the 10th anniversary of the Blister Podcast. So to celebrate this milestone, we thought we’d share some of the highlights, lowlights, and crazy factoids about how this podcast came to be; how it led to the creation of the Blister Podcast Network; and what the next 10 years might look like.

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We’d love for you to share with us the stories or topics you’d like us to cover next month on Reviewing the News; ask your most pressing mountain town advice questions, or offer your hot takes for us to rate. You can email those to us here.

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TOPICS & TIMES:

Origin Story of the Blister Podcast (3:29)

The Original Blister Podcast Intro (5:33)

Ep 1: Ski Designer, Jed Yeiser (6:42)

Ep 6: First Podcast w/ Cody Townsend (12:37)

Ep 21: Xavier de le Rue (23:08)

Ep 41: Sage Cattabriga-Alosa on Skiing Spines (30:38)

Ep 45: Tommy Caldwell on Obsessive Focus vs Balance (39:02)

Ep 47: My Nearly Fatal Birthday in the Backcountry (47:15)

Ep 87: Alex Honnold’s Mom, Deirdre Wolownick (52:19)

Ep 107: Rachel Burks on Skiing & Shakespeare (1:12:36)

Ep 116: Geoff McFetridge, Wu Tang, & The RZA (1:22:30)

Ep 150: The 1st ‘Reviewing the News’ Episode (1:31:42)

Ep 189: Angel Collinson on Retiring from Skiing (1:34:23)

Ep 310: Hall of Famer, Bill Walton (1:43:47)

Ep 332: Ted Ligety on Lindsey Vonn’s Comeback (1:52:21)

What’s Next? (1:58:59)

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