Wow, tons of news from Team Thunderstruck! We have been traveling all over the Rockies these last few weeks! Also, THUNDERSTRUCK 7 has been nominated for another Xtremey award!
Three out of the last 4 years a Thunderstruck rider has won the Xtremey Award for Best Snowmobiler in a Snowmobile Film and this year should be no different!! Both Randy Swenson and Brad Story had amazing sections in TS7 and many other riders took their sections over the top also! Wish we could vote for more than one!!
To vote for Thunderstruck 7 and your favorite TS rider, click here to go to the Xtremeys
Our last 3 weekends have been a crazy time! We started at the end of January in Utah helping out with the DOUBLE XTREME SNOWMOBILE CALENDAR photo shoot. Yep, that is the calendar with the beautiful women and the super-cool sleds in it! Dave and I went down for this and although it rained the entire time we were there, we had a ball! Thanks to Travis from Double Xtreme and the models Jonnie, Lacey and Tara for being an absolute ball to work with!! And perhaps maybe you’ll see some Thunderstruck sleds in the 2010 calendar!!! 🙂
Then it was off to McBride, BC for a whirlwind tour of some new riding areas! We went up for the SNOWANDMUD.COM forum ride and had an absolute riot!! Trennis, Dave and I drove the 15 hours and were welcomed into McBride as if we were born there and were returning home! Oh wait, Trennis was born there!! We met so many amazing people and it is so tough to personally thank all of them but rest assured, the people of McBride BC are amazing! Rod from Adrenaline Tours took us riding for 3 days and showed us amazing country and super-deep powder! Glenn and Anyla from Spin Drift Motor Sports extended their selflessness to us all weekend and even let Trennis and Dave use their shop late at night to make repairs! There was an amazing banquet on the Saturday night followed by some bar hopping! The RCMP (police) actually ended up coming to the GIGGLIN’ GRIZZLY PUB (Rosanna, you are an angel!) and kicking us all out!! It got a bit Western up there! We met super-fans Meaghan and Colton and even met some other celebrities in the sledding world! Thank you so much to Ron and the SNOW AND MUD crew, we will be forever in your debt!!! A trip that will never be forgotten!!!!!!!!!!!
Last weekend we decided since the snow is so minimal to scout new areas so we ended up in Stanley, ID riding the Sawtooths! Brad and Natalie came up from Utah, Julio from Boise, Dave, Carrie, Joe and I from Helena. We also met up with Chris and Rachel from Bohnenkamp’s in Boise and met an amazing new rider named Abby! The area is gorgeous and although the snow conditions were lackluster, we made the best of it! The sun even honored us with its presence one day and it was great riding! Fun times!
Next up, Valentine’s Day weekend Team Thunderstruck will spend time off with families and friends and then we will probably hit Canada again as the snow is quite a bit deeper up there!
Thanks for reading, go vote at the Xtremeys!!!
– February 11, 2009