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There’s always that point in the day on the mountain, the beach, the trail, under the waterfall, or standing in the middle of the energy vortex when you think “time to power up the radness meter and get some good food fuel in me.” You go digging through your pocket or into your pack and take out energy bar X and maybe you decide to look at the list of ingredients. Most energy bars out there have ingredient lists a mile long and contain cryptic ingredients involving syrups and pastes that don’t make the old brain noodle think “wholeseome goodness.”
Enter Art Eggertsen, a former Snowbird mountain natural foods chef and core snowboarder. After reliving the above scenario one too many times Art decided to raise the proverbial bar [winkwink] and come up with an all natural, whole food, energy-rich alternative. Today ProBar stands out not only as a delicious treat and meal replacement, but as the burliest bar on the market. In a ProBar you’ll find whole oats, fruits and lots of the world’s Superfoods wrapped together in styles like Koka-Moka, Superfood Slam, and Whole Berry Blast. The bars are all 100% vegan in case you’re curious or, well vegan and the company is run by Art who has dedicated his life towards spreading the word about the importance of whole foods and nutrition. This is a grassroots product that has taken off since it’s arrival back in 2001 and today Art and co. are doing everything possible to keep up with the overwhelming demand. Definitely visit the webaite to learn more about Art and his history, very intriguing and dedicated guy.
Burlytown only endorses what is good for the community and as The Mayor I stand before everyone and declare ProBar the official bar of our fair place. Eat up and seek adventure!
This past long weekend I traveled north of the border for the Kootenay Coldsmoke Festival at Whitewater Ski and Winter resort outside of Nelson, BC. Nelson is a nice little town of 10,000 people where everyone is a potter, painter, professional thinker, ski bum and coffee buff. Everyone’s really friendly, half the people there don’t work, they get unemployment from the government and seem to do pretty well. Socialism is hawt!
A few things about our neighbors to the north. The beer there? Yep, stronger. Marijuana? I’ll relay a little story here. We met a friend while we were there, let’s call him Woodsman. Woodsman lives in an even smaller town called Ymir (pronounced why-mer) and one night he’s hanging on his couch with a hooge bag of the herbs on his lap and there’s a knock at the door. Woodsman here invites in the guest without so much as leaving the couch and that visitor happens to be a local police officer. Here’s how the exchange goes, as related to me by Woodsman.
Woodsman (with hooge bag of herb in his lap): Evening…
Police: How ya doing there, buddy? What’cha got there?
Woodsman: Oh, this is just my hooge bag of herb
Police: Yeah, I see that, you got a basement here in the house?
Woodsman: No, no basement, I have a crawl space, want to see it?
Police: Sure thing, thanks (he has a look, nothing shocking in there, like, say, a hooge grow operation) Well, thanks, you have a good evening now.
Woodsman: You too, see you around.
But enough of all this about drugs and booze, we came here for one reason and that’s to ski and kick some Canadian mountain tail!
This would be our playground for the next 4 days. Whitewater Mountain is 500 acres of lift-served ski resort, but the real gem of this place is the open gates and backcountry access.
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