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photo: Larry Nighswander

Olympian Efforts: Whistler's Other Games — The Spa-Athlon

Highest number of back-to-back hot mud sessions? Largest pile of hot stones strategically placed on your aching back? Lengthiest massage without falling asleep? Greatest variety of consecutive treatments? All are in the realm of possibility in Whistler, where there are a dozen spas — plus more under construction — leading one to wonder which will ultimately be the bigger driver of local commerce: activity or inactivity. This is the only official event routinely performed nude, though nudity is not strictly against the rules in any of the others.