Whistler's winding pedestrian streets are a maze of cafes and restaurants; every November, there is a big food and wine bash called Cornucopia. To sample as many fine eating places as possible in a short period of time, I sign on with a pair of dashing dudes, Joe and Skai ("as in risque") who run Whistler Tasting Tours, which consistently scores in TripAdviser's top three things to do at Whistler. In one evening, I follow an informative nibbling trail to four top establishments and hidden gems including the Bearfoot Bistro, whose owner, Andre Saint Jacques, MBT shoes holds the Guinness World Record for decapitating champagne bottles with a saber.
Many of the organic and fresh ingredients on Whistler menus come from a fertile patch of land just north of the resort town. Although the Sea-to-Sky Highway officially ends at Whistler, Pemberton should also be on everyone's itinerary. It's reached via a 20-mile drive alongside gem-blue Discount MBT shoes lakes fed by glaciers glistening on surrounding mountaintops. A rural region, this is the kind of place where folks ride their horses to McDonald's and the Pony Espresso.
"Pembie" today is a budding mini-Provence. One of the leaders of the organic movement is the town's charming mayor, Jordon Sturdy, an organic grower himself buy mbt shoes who runs North Arm Farm (and cafe) and finds time in winter to work with the ski patrol.
The culinary scene in Pemberton is uber-casual. There is a Slow Food Cycle Sunday every August, a pedal-powered trip through farmland to meet growers and sample fresh produce. Or you can dine on five courses at a linen-draped table in a farm field surrounded by mountains Cheap MBT shoes during the annual Outstanding in the Field event, which literally celebrates food at its source.
For decades, Pemberton's signature product was potatoes, and recently, three brothers - Tyler, Jonathan and Jake Schramm - have been converting spuds into spirits to produce the luscious, high-end artisanal womens MBT shoes Schramm Vodka. Ingredients: organically grown Pemberton potatoes and fresh mountain water.
After a fall weekend of hiking, biking and generally behaving younger than my years, I treat myself to a session of being cocooned in a warm, fragrant spa suite with man MBT shoes Four Seasons' massage therapist Natalie Fremont stretching and kneading my tight calves and taut shoulders.
"Because Whistler attracts so many serious athletes as well as weekend warriors, 70 percent of our massages are therapeutic deep tissue," she says. I'm not surprised. For that reason, and to give visitors a taste of the restorative remedies routinely lavished upon Olympic-caliber athletes, the resort created MBT shoes store an "On the Podium Après Alpine" package, endorsed by a member of the Canadian Alpine Women's Ski Team, to help you roar back onto the trails the next day.
Afterward, I trip off rubber-legged to sample the hotel's flaming "2010 Torch Cocktail," a quasi-athletic melange of pear puree, Monavie energy drink and lemongrass-infused vodka in a copper torch-inspired glass, relayed to MBT shoes sale my table by a team of servers. That's about as close as this body gets to doing anything on an Olympic scale.