MOUNTAIN LIFE - Blue Mountains | Winter 2018

WINTER 2018 ML BLUE 31 When do apples, snowshoes and moonlight come together? Just once a year this magic happens and Friday, February 9 is the night. The Moonlight Feest— feest is a Middle Dutch noun meaning “party, feast or celebration”—combines cider, wine, music, and local food prepared on site, with guided snowshoe treks. With stops at fire-warmed cabins for refreshment, the 5km or 3km tours wind through the trails of Scenic Caves Nordic Centre. The event is sponsored by Red Prince Apple and a portion of each ticket sold is donated to the Blue Mountain Village Foundation. The Feest is a winter extension of the increasingly popular Apple Pie Trail, a major Blue Mountains–region tourism draw that won last year’s Ontario Culinary Experience Award. To show that even when trees are bare the elevated apple experience continues, Feest participants will stomp through Scenic Caves’ groomed footpath network and across the 420-foot suspension bridge. And each toasty hut will offer up apple-inspired dishes from the area’s top chefs, bakers and beverage makers. This year’s providers-of-goodies include, in no particular order: Jeremy Korten from Oliver & Bonacini Café Grill; Leona Nyman from Azzurra; apple pie from Blackbird Pie Co.; to-be-announced treats from Heavenly Sweets and Georgian Hills Vineyards; and newly released organic cider from Great Canadian Cider Co. and Red Prince Cider from Thornbury Village Cidery. Participation is limited. See here for more details and to purchase your tickets : applepietrail.ca/feest TASTEFUL TRAILS: THE MOONLI GHT FEEST UP FRONT Each toasty hut offers up apple-inspired dishes from the area’s top chefs, bakers and beverage makers. TOP & BOTTOM The delights of the warming cabins. JULIE CARD