CAMDEN — The Camden Snow Bowl just got a new eatery. The only thing is, you can’t get to it by walking.

Brian Beggarly, owner of Boynton-McKay in Camden, just opened a pop-up weekend taco shop mid-mountain at the Snow Bowl on the weekend of Dec. 16-18 and plans to continue his new venture, Cold Toes Tacos, all winter long.

“I learned how to snowboard in Vermont and all of the bigger mountains have these foodstands and mini pubs mid-mountain where you can grab a burger and a beer so you don’t have to go all the way down the mountain when you’re hungry,” he explained. “So, in trying to think of things I could do in the wintertime, I came up with the idea of applying the foodstand concept to the Snow Bowl on a smaller scale. Tacos fill you up, but aren’t too heavy, so you can keep on skiing or snowboarding. My goal is to have people get through the line in five minutes.”

Tacos are easy, he said. “I can prep much of it beforehand and all I have to do is heat up the fillings an tortillas on a grill. ”

Getting the product up the mountain, however, took a little more thought.

“We took a snowmobile up the service road towing a lot of stuff. My wife actually knocked together this incredible sled with an old pair of skis locked into an Igloo cooler and then we found a really old sled in the maintenance shed that looks like something out of the Iditarod and hooked that up. So, we got all of the heavy gear up Saturday, where it will live all winter.

“I’ve done a lot of catering, but it’s mostly been on sandy beaches in Florida,” he said. “I though that experience would apply. Some of it did; some of it didn’t. It takes a few more extra layers and having to take my gloves off a lot. But, other than that, it was super cool.”

Beggarly hopes to make the concept a moveable feast by moving the taco stand around to various areas on the mountain.

“We are now set up for where the little chairlift drops off, because right now, that’s the only part of the mountain that’s open,” he said. “But, as we get more natural snow this winter, that will open up opportunities where we can be. We’ll be flexible where we move. We have to check in with Ski Patrol so we’re not causing a traffic jam. And we want to be accessible to a lot of levels of skiers, so we’re probably going to stay somewhere around mid-mountain.”

His first weekend was a huge success, and he ended up selling out of many of his signature items.

“I probably had five days worth of food up there,” he joked. “We got a lot of positive feedback.”

Cold Toes Tacos plans on being open each weekend Friday to Sunday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Check with the Snow Bowl or their Facebook page to learn whether they will be open during both holiday weekends.

Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com