The first to arrive on my desk this season and the first to be reviewed, Thunderstruck 12 is the latest installment in Jim Phelan’s series of extreme sledding flicks.
For 12 years running, the TS crew have pushed the limits of backcountry sledding with their high-horsepower machines and audacious attitudes. After every film, I have been left wondering: how will they possibly be able to top this again for next year? But they do, and lucky for us, Phelan’s always got the camera rolling.
Thunderstruck 12 takes viewers to the rock-lined chutes of Revelstoke and elsewhere in the beautiful B.C. Rockies with all the usual suspects—including Randy Swenson, Julio Eiguren, Mark Mesenbrink, Sid Huntsmen and Trennis Baer.
It’s an hour and 47 minutes of insane ascents, deep powder riding and rollicking good times. If footage of the successful climbs doesn't have you on the edge of your seat, the clips of what happens when things go wrong certainly will. As expected, this film is primarily hillclimbing but there are tree riding and trick segments in the mix as well—courtesy of riders like Cam "Hollywood" Hicks and Linden Ladouceur. No matter what your preferred style of riding is, though, we all can appreciate what the TS boys, and girls, do in their free time.
