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Outdoor Retailer Summer Market Trade Show Interviews Salt Lake City, Utah, August 12-13, 2005

Andrea Parisotto & Chris Clarke of Scarpa-- With the big news that Black Diamond and Scarpa were planning to end their 18-year partnership at the close of the 06/06 season, we were looking forward to chat with Chris, Scarpa's new North American Sales Manger, and Andrea, a member of the Parisotto family, the owners of Scarpa and now the President of the new Scarpa division here in the U.S. They had some interesting news for us in this nearly 8 minute conversation... including possible Scarpa boot price cuts down the line...  59mb Windows Media  1mb Windows Media Related Story

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Adam Howard, editor of Backcountry-- This was even more fun than usual. Adam and the Backcountry crew have come so far in the last couple of years with the mag, and so much has gone down since the last time we got together for a chat ... it was time to catch up, and so we did in this nearly 14 minute interview.  105mb Windows Media  4mb Windows Media    Podcast

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Black Diamond Equipment's Dave Mellon and Thomas Laakso-- When it comes to ski gear development news at BD, these two are at ground zero, and in this 12+ minute wide-ranging interview, Dave and Thomas (pronounced Too-mus) give us their typically candid views on a number of issues... including their satisfaction with the current 02 and 03 bindings as well as info on a new tele binding BD has in the works for 06/07.  87mb Windows Media  2mb Windows Media  114mb Mpeg    Podcast

Catching up with the Powderwhores-- Noah Howell and Andy Jacobson passed along a DVD with a 3 minute teaser video for their upcoming feature length film, due out this fall (now showing on TeleVision), then spent a few minutes updating us on the film's progress... and a bunch of other stuff we think you'll find interesting...  46mb Windows Media  2mb Windows Media  59mb Mpeg