| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 12:54:36 PM | Come on fishies...
it is coming around to that time of year again and I was wondering if there were any brave souls here on POF!!
New Years day.. English Bay
If there is enough interest, I can look into having a section saved for us (again) at Checkers for both before and after the swim.
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 1:26:25 PM | ha!
i wonder if my 4,10 and 14 yr old boys would do this with their mamas draggin 'em ??
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 1:33:56 PM | i did this 2 years ago and last yr didn't ... i had other plans and was a jam tart.
Thinking of doing it again... however, my kayak group is doing a paddle that day close by. | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 1:47:41 PM | I did this a decade ago, though it had nothing to do with any bears
or the New Year...........i had to go...and bad, so >>>fully clothed i hucked
myself in the ocean at jericho beach.
Ah.....it was a release and the cardiac arrest feeling was invigorating.
PS, think that astronaught was on to something...gotta buy some diaphers
CUZZ i wont be doing that again....it was SHOCKING  | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 2:05:05 PM | what's wrong with those people???
Spending New Years eve and night filling up to keep warm
only to submerge in English Bay's toxic soup????
Masochists  | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 2:50:49 PM | only to submerge in English Bay's toxic soup
I wouldn't even do that on a hot summer day!
But I might watch.
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 7:30:28 PM | I would if the water was'nt so full of garbage, broken glass, needles etc.......notta freekin chance.....
Besides......it's cold.... | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 7:33:38 PM | I remember seeing my first one on the Island ... Miracle Beach. I chuckled, only because the previous year I was in Cold Lake, Alberta for New Years.
For the Polar Bear swim there, they get out ice augers, cut a 12' hole in ice that's a foot thick, then jump in.... now THAT's a Polar Bear Swim!
(I did neither...I prefer hot tubs myself) | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 8:26:46 PM | | you couldn't pay me enough money to plunge my lily white into freezing cold water... | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 10:02:05 PM | ^^^betcha lily white would turn pink and perky in a hurry | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/8/2008 11:16:05 PM | Pink and perky...that's a good one.
I've done it twice. Lots of fun. I highly recommend wearing beach shoes. | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/29/2008 7:01:37 PM | Seasons Greetings
I am most interested in the prospect of a New Years day Polar Bear swim at/in English Bay.
Please count me in 
Aaron | |
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| 2009 Polar Bear swim
Posted: 12/29/2008 9:25:07 PM | Count me out. I don't turn the high beams and freeze the delicate spots.
More of a hot tub girl here with a bottle of wine! | |
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