Press Poll: Taking the Plunge?
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COEUR d’ALENE - It’s cold and wet, but for hundreds of people the New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge has become a tradition.
And once again it is set for its traditional time and place, noon on New Year’s Day at Sanders Beach.
Roughly 500 people show up every year to run into the lake, dive under, and run back out even faster. The first unofficial Polar Bear Plunge occurred Nov. 21, 1978.
According to lakecoeurdalene.com , the temperature of the lake water was 43 degrees on Dec. 5, and it should grow a little colder by Jan. 1.
Pondering posting the Mike Kennedy Polar Bear Plunge photo. Meanwhile, will you, have you, taken the plunge?
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