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northwest destination Blake Jorgenson/SilverStar Mountain Resort Blake Jorgenson/SilverStar Mountain Resort Usain Bolt dashing down the track. The hips, legs and arms are in tacit agreement of co-efficiency, creating a state that drives equal and opposite reaction. While others are skating off in perverse angles, I’m connecting the shortest distance between two points on a narrow, straight path. There must be something about symmetry that appeals to me. Leonardo da Vinci put his image of the perfect human body inside a circle and a square, casting symmetry as beauty and perfection in his homage to ancient Greek architect Marcus Vitruvius. (“I’m talking about classical proportions, perfect symmetry and ideal conditioning,” Vitruvius may have said.) Though no sober mind, nor that of my elite-skiing, analytical and critical wife, would conflate my form with perfection, symmetry and its companions—zen and happiness—are lifelong pursuits of the classic school. Speed, my wife would argue, is a much more distant cousin. Symmetry, nonetheless, is a liquid state that takes the shape of its container. After two hours, my container was less symmetrical, and I could feel the slosh of things throwing me off balance. Hot tubs are a good way to re-center. Of course, SilverStar is more than a vast platform for cross-country skiing. Its eleven lifts serve 132 marked runs from beginner to expert. Freestyle skiers and snowboarders can hone their tricks in a terrain park. An outdoor skating rink on Brewers Pond brings out hockey players and recreational skaters. The village of SilverStar has 5,600 pillows throughout its nine hotels and lodges, and eighteen food and beverage venues and multiple retail and rental shops. My favorite is Bugaboos Bakery Café, a strudel-lover’s lair from Dutchborn baker Frank Berkers. In the air, the scents of cinnamon, chocolate and coffee mix with spoken accents of French, Dutch, Australian, German and Canadian. On any given day, I can easily spend four hours at Bugaboos working, partaking of pastry, drinking end-to-end Americanos and listening to the banter of non-Americanos. For two years in a row, we’ve stumbled into The Red Antler for dinner on Wednesday’s half-price wing night. This is a sooey call to all of the resort’s workers, so go early and leave early. The Red Antler has good Canadian pub grub that includes poutine and a lamb burger along with local meats and cheeses. The local beer isn’t quite on par with the craftsmanship of Washington and Oregon, but it’s on its way. The people of Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre take their cross-country skiing and biathlon seriously. With 105 kilometers of trails and a communal lodge at its center, Sovereign is known as the largest continuously groomed network of trails in Canada. The lodge has restrooms, a fire stove and tables for eating lunch. Out back is the ski stadium, a large clearing where races start and finish. Not far from the parking lot is a biathlon target area. I can spend days on Sovereign’s meticulous groomers and ski until my symmetry wanes with the falling sun. Each March, Sovereign Lake Nordic Centre hosts a 30k freestyle loppet race for the recreational competitive skier. The so-called loppet series comes from the Worldloppet Ski Federation, which 84 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE FEBRUARY | MARCH 2018
northwest destination FROM LEFT The Red Antler’s Canadian pub grub is perfect. SilverStar has a network of 105-plus kilometers for nordic skiers. The resort is billed as B.C.’s third largest. promotes long-distance Nordic ski races around the world. My wife, Sarah, has done many from Germany and Switzerland to Sweden and Wisconsin. I once flailed 50k through the Konig Ludwig worldloppet into Oberammergau, Germany, sightskiing my way to an unremarkable finish. Sovereign’s 30k race now sounds more appealing. Nothing called a getaway is easy to get to. The small Kelowna airport is an hour southwest of SilverStar, with two major airlines of Air Canada and Alaska Airlines (and a handful of locals) in service. Alaska Airlines flies daily from Seattle to Kelowna with a quick one-hour flight. Air Canada has flights from Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver. Most visitors will drive in from around the Pacific Northwest. Driving has its perks, too. The town of Vernon, just 15 miles southwest of SilverStar, is home to a fantastic German deli, Helmut’s Sausage Kitchen. Herein lie dozens of mustards, homemade sausage with creative combinations like cranberry turkey sausage, and to-go sandwiches for the drive made of schnitzel and bratwurst. If possible, whether coming or going, drive the beautiful Okanagan Valley during daylight hours. More than 200 wineries span 100 miles of this terroir along the long tendril of the winsome Okanagan Lake, created by the snow melt from the surrounding Monashee Mountains. Wines from this region had once been synonymous with ice wine, but increasingly are known for its newer varietals including the German Riesling and Gewurztraminer as well as warmer varietals such as Sangiovese and Tempranillo. Not without patina, Okanagan’s first vines were planted in 1859 by a French priest who grew grapes for the church’s sacramental wine. Ski, bakery, work, dine, drink good wine—this is the menu of life up the Okanagan Valley and into SilverStar. It’s the symmetry of work, play and recreation in equal parts in this remote corner that brings out the best in human nature and patiently awaits our return next winter. Blake Jorgenson/SilverStar Mountain Resort SILVERSTAR MOUNTAIN RESORT, BRITISH COLUMBIA EAT Bugaboos Bakery silverstar.com The Red Antler silverstar.com Den Bistro & Bar silverstar.com Helmut’s Sausage Kitchen helmutssausagekitchen.ca STAY Snowbird Lodge silverstar.com Firelight Lodge silverstar.com Vance Creek Hotel silverstar.com Sparkling Hill Resort sparklinghill.com Cedar Falls Campground and RV travel-british-columbia.com/listings/Cedar-Falls-Campground-RV- Park/2728 Swan Lake RV Resort travel-british-columbia.com/listings/Swan-Lake-RV-Resort/2669 PLAY Ski or snowboard at SilverStar Ice skate at Brewers Pond Okanagan Winter in Wine Country Nov. 23-26 and Dec 2-3 Big Reds at Big White Ski Resort, Dec. 9 FEBRUARY | MARCH 2018 1889 WASHINGTON’S MAGAZINE 85
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