Is there a Polar Bear club in your area?

[Archae]

There's one here in Sheboygan, they get together on New Years Day and jump into Lake Michigan.

Yesterday they did just that, even though it was below 20 degrees and windy.

BRRRR!!!

[mopinko]

1. big thing in chicago

tho i havent heard about this years plunge.
i think it is nucking futs, but i can understand how much fun it would be to brag that you did it.

[LiberalElite]

2. Not to brag but -

got the oldest one in the U.S.A. here: http://www.polarbearclub.org/

[mnhtnbb]

3. They have a Penguin Plunge at Atlantic Beach, NC

Air temp was low 50's and so was the water.

video here from yesterday

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1001564436526960&set=vb.100000202384502&type=3


Local news:

http://www.witn.com/home/headlines/635-brave-souls-participate-in-Polar-Plunge-287304821.html

[jmowreader]

4. Nothing organized in North Idaho, but people do it every year

[IrishEyes]

5. Yes, my friend did it yesterday.

She didn't tell me beforehand. I just got a video of her doing it. Maybe I'll do it next year so I can cross it off my bucket list.

[KMOD]

6. They do it every New Years Day in

beautiful Lake George, NY.

[NightWatcher]

7. Here in Florida it's just another day of Yankees going to the beach

I like to wait till the water warms up a bit or go diving in a suit, but Yankees love going to the beach daily down here.

[csziggy]

8. My sister visited Germany one summer

And her hosts took her to the coast there. She said the water was colder there in July than it ever was in Florida. Not one of the Florida college students on the trip did more than stick their toes in the water. They understood why Northern Europeans and Yankees could swim in the Gulf in February!

They also took the Florida students to a seaquarium type of place whose big claim to fame were dolphins brought from Florida - I've got the brochure she brought back. I never figured out why the German tour leaders would think an attraction of animals caught in Florida waters would be interesting to people from Florida. At the Florida college they attended dolphins were seen from the dorm windows almost every day.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I believe there's one in Barrow, Alaska.

My dad worked up there at the Arctic Naval Research Lab in the '70s and took the plunge. We also have a polar plunge into Resurrection Bay in Seward that benefits the United Way that's held in January and one here at Goose Lake in Anchorage benefiting Special Olympics that was last month. This year over 1,000 people participated and raised $400,000.

[Archae]

11. I read that at the South Pole research station they have a "200 Club"

They sit in a sauna where it's a hundred, then run outside get their picture taken where it's a hundred below.

[Blue_In_AK]

12. That's kinda nuts.

[Skittles]

10. are there volunteer medics around when they do that

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just curious because it they very often seem to be seniors hopping into that water