Apr 10

Photo of the Week: Vasu Sojitra

Vasu Sojitra shredding spring corn at Mad River Glen, Vermont - ©Brian Mohr/ EmberPhoto - All rights reserved

Vasu Sojitra is one of the strongest and most stoked skiers we’ve ever come across. We bumped into him a few times in Vermont this winter, and we finally had a chance to share some runs together with him last week up at Mad River Glen. After growing up in the Northeast and recently graduating from UVM, Vasu has been keeping busy working with Vermont Adaptive and collaborating on a film featuring his backcountry skiing adventures as an above-the-knee amputee. Learn more about Vasu, and check out a short video about him, here.

The Photo of the Week featuring Vasu was captured on Mad River Glen’s Paradise trail last week.

Ski you out there.
-Brian

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Apr 01

Photo of the Week: Camo Skier

Green Mountains, Vermont, USA ©Brian Mohr/ EmberPhoto - All rights reserved

This past week wrapped up another one of the greatest stretches of Northeast powder skiing in recent memory. And even as our precious powder gave way to last weekend’s not-so-powdery storm (although the High Peaks of the Dacks scored 12″+), the skiing was still surprisingly sweet for those who headed for the mountains anyway…(below the ice glaze layer up high, at least). Of course, the skiing is always good in the rain.

As of midday Tuesday, after a heroic effort to keep Spring at bay, it seemed clear that Old Man Winter had finally given in to the inevitable cycling of the seasons. Just as the maple sap will flow and be boiled into syrup in the days ahead, the snow will soften into something equally as sweet.

Here’s an image from early last week in VT, captured while skiing one of the many, many lines that finally become skiable when our snow pack in the middle elevations hits the three to four foot level. With some luck, and before our north-facing mountainsides really start to melt, April will produce some good mountain snowfall and freshen up these lines just few more times.

Ski you out there.

Brian and Emily

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Mar 23

Photo of the Week: Blower

Powder skiing in Vermont's Green Mountains - ©Brian Mohr/EmberPhoto

Winter reached an unforgettable crescendo over the weekend after 10-20″+ of perfect-density powder snow piled up in the preceding 48 hours across many high elevation Northeastern locales. In the most snow-catching and wind-loaded drainages and gulleys, the snow was nearly bottomless…and blower – billowing well overhead and blinding anyone following behind you. Here’s a quick frame grab from some follow-cam footage to share, featuring Forrest Twombly (left, barely visible) and Ian Forgays (right), going deep in Vermont’s Green Mountains.

With unseasonably cold temps prevailing over the next four to five days, and the possibly for more significant snowfall mid-week, the time is now to get out there and celebrate winter.

Ski you out there.
-Brian and Emily

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Mar 14

Photo of the Week: There’s No Powder in Vermont

This week’s storm produced (and continues to produce) some of the most enjoyable snow-sliding conditions of our lifetimes. Here’s an image captured around 8:30am on Thursday morning in Vermont’s Green Mountains. It’s a good thing we sharpened those skis Wednesday night. The Ice Coast was going off.

Enjoy the deep snow pack out there in the days ahead.

-Brian and Emily

Green Mountains, Vermont, USA ©Brian Mohr/ EmberPhoto - All rights reserved

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Mar 07

Photo of the Week: Extra Points

Backcountry skiing in the Green Mountains, Vermont - ©Brian Mohr/EmberPhoto.com

This first week of March continues to be a gem. It kicked off with up to 6″ of fresh fluff in many locations last Sunday morning (3/2), enough to finally cover and cushion (to varying degrees) the lingering Feb 21 rain crust off-piste. In some locations across the northern Greens, that rain crust has been virtually undetectable all week, making for a fine week of powder skiing. Where the crust still lingers, the lower angle skiing off-piste continues to be smooth and creamy, with steeper pitches requiring just a little hop to your turns and some good speed control… Fatter skis w/ rockered tips help, too.

The sun really starting to cook solar aspects on Thursday, and the sun will continue to shine Friday and Saturday, so soak it up. With some luck, Old Man Winter will give us some love next week.

If the technical powder still prevailing in most locations off-piste is not calling you, the Nordic skiing statewide, most well-tracked backcountry trails (down-mountain trails like the Marcy Trail, Bruce Trail, etc…) and most well-traveled, resort-based terrain is skiing beautifully right now.

Ski you out there.
– Brian

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