source:xgamescom
At long last, it’s time for Tanner Hall Comeback Part Deux. On the heels of his first winter on skis since he broke both tibial plateaus two years ago, Hall’s production company, Inspired Media Concepts has released the teaser for its upcoming film, “Retallack.” The full movie will be available for purchase on DVD and digital download on August 1.

BC’s Retallack Lodge, the subject of the new film, is a staple of the backcountry freestyle community with many skiers, including Hall, who’s an investor in the cat-skiing lodge. Hall spent a great deal of time in Retallack in past years while filming for his backcountry-heavy videos “Believe” (2007) and “The Massive” (2008). He also expressed a great deal of enthusiasm for returning to Retallack at the beginning of this season, his first winter back after his 2009 double knee injury.

“I can finally get out and do my work again,” Hall said shortly before returning to Retallack. “It’s so awesome to finally hear those camera guys say they’re ready, and then say ‘3-2-1,’ without hesitation, and drop and ski with 100 percent confidence. It’s a good feeling.”

The movie “Retallack” documents that feeling alluded to by Hall in a segment that the Inspired Media site dubs “a comeback segment that won’t be forgotten.”
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source:theskimonstercom
You called me crazy uncle, I call you lazy aunties. Buck up crew. Tomorrow it’s time, to pull up your panties.” Those words, so gracefully read by Karl the Gnarl, speaks volumes when joining Tanner Hall for his newest major ski film “Retallack: The Movie.” Tanner had good reasons to invited seasoned new guys like Phil Casabon, Henrick Harlaut, and Ben Moxham who destroy it in park and urban. Ironically, there happens to be no park OR urban in this movie, at all, but that doesn’t matter because those guys still throw down and flash their famous park steeze off some sizeable backcountry drops and booters. With the likes of John Spriggs, Ian and Neil Provo and a few others, Retallack puts together a great mix of backcountry/big mountain skills and park/urban stompness sans the park/urban.

In Retallack, you can primarily expect to see lots of pillows, trees, big drops in trees, big pillows in trees, pillows in trees with big drops. Nice big marshmellowy pillows. Yum yum. A few tasty doubles are hucked off impressive jumps even though they were nowhere near a man-made terrain park. Just mother nature’s own park features, along with a little assistance at times in the form of hand-shaped backcountry kickers. Some really sweet powder shots. And definitely some big mountain lines.

Retallack is a good preview of the amazing helmet cam/GoPro/Contour POV booming craze that will likely be shown off a lot in most of this year’s new ski films. (#trending) In Retallack, there are quite a few great POVs taken from both skiers and snowboarders. This film has some unique follow shots with a skier behind a snowboarder ripping it in deep pow, blinding face shots, pretty intense big mountain lines and freefall pillow drops all captured in super-coolness perspectives for our viewing pleasure.

Tanner’s segment starts as you would expect it to start, from a helicopter…but in a different way. Def a sweet banger opening followed by a slew of high speed big mountain lines with some techiness and a little rotation thrown in for good measure. Very much worth the closing segment.

Retallack is good ski flick if you’ve got a half hour to kill because it’s under thirty minutes in length. OR, you could watch it twice in one hour! The soundtrack is not as Reggae-saturated as you might think however there are a few small parts that get slowed down because of the music. (Maybe just not my style.) The one thing that actually hurts this movie is the fact you never know who is skiing/snowboarding because no names are displayed while watching. Tanner’s seg is pretty obvious being it is the last segment before the credits. Yeah…the credits show all the names, but I like to make that connection of insaneness-to-skier as the movie is playing.

Regardless, there was no shortage of insaneness in this movie and Tanner Hall can claim yet another awesome Life segment captured on film called; Retallack: The Movie.
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source:skiingde
Checked das Highlight aus dem Retallack Movie. Retallack ist eine Lodge in Kanada, Britisch Columbia, die in dem wahrscheinlich besten Snowcat Resort weltweit, romantisch eingebettet in einer kleinen Waldlichtung liegt. Eine Hand voll prominenter Proskier, wie Tanner Hall und JP Auclair sind an dieser Lodge beteiligt. Aus rein marketingtechnischem Gesichtspunkt wäre es ja schon sinnvoll seinem eigenen Snowcat Resort auch gleich einen Freeskimovie zu widmen. Zu Tanner und Co´s Verteidigung muss man aber sagen, dass falls sich ein Client nur durch die angesprochene Werbemaßnahme nach B.C. locken lässt, dieser ganz sicher keinen Turn im täglich frischen Powder von Retallack bereuen würde.
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source:skimagcom
When I arrive at Retallack Lodge, a remote cat-skiing operation deep within British Columbia’s Selkirk range, I find out I’ll be sharing a cat with a rowdy group of snowboarders from Breckenridge, Colorado – shop techs, waiters, and a doughnut fryer. These guys have spent a month’s earnings on a single day of cat-skiing. They claim they’re fast and hungry for powder and cliffs, which normally would satisfy me. Except that I was expecting Seth Morrison.

In 2007, Retallack brought on some new investors, including freeskiing’s biggest stars, Morrison and Tanner Hall. So when I show up one night in late February I have high hopes of skiing with the pros. “Sorry, no Tanner and Seth,” Retallack’s general manager Phil Pinfold tells me. “They were here about two weeks ago.”

My consolation prize? A tall can of Stella and some bro-speak (“Dude, it’s gonna be siiick tomorrow!”) around the lodge’s two-story granite fireplace. I’ve never skied interior BC before and the Breck boys have never ridden anything steeper than 30 degrees. Although it hasn’t snowed in four days, our guides, Tim Shenkariuk and Marc Deschenes, promise they’ll find us fresh tracks.

Retallack receives upwards of 35 feet of snowfall each year. And its terrain rivals some nearby heli operations, covering 9,500 acres over three towering 9,000-foot peaks. “This place isn’t for soft skiers,” Phil says. He isn’t kidding: Lines with names like Morning Wood and Viagra tip to 40-plus degrees through open bowls and tight chutes, and one run is two and a half miles long.

The next morning, after a feast of homemade sticky buns, bacon, French toast, and veggie frittata, we load into the loudly painted 12-person cat. Bob Marley blasts from the speakers. On either side of us, the slope plummets 2,000 feet to the valley floor. The cat lurches to a stop and we eagerly pile out.

Looking out at the Selkirks surrounding us, the group is stunned speechless. A few minutes later, I’m clicking into my skis on a cloud-high ridgeline staring down a 35-degree shot of untouched, well-preserved powder. I should let the doughnut fryer have the first line, but I don’t. I drop in and blast through the steep, powdery trees as fast as I know how. If Seth Morrison was here, he’d be proud. Maybe.