A Hole In The Ice Of The Lake

Posted on June 5, 2008 | 1 Comment

I can’t imagine anyone is a “regular reader” of this site, but speaking to the imaginary, if you are, you’ll notice that the site’s been completely redesigned and moved into a proper CMS. After a morning of CSS tweaking it feels ready to start posting to. You may notice the new ice swimming picture in the header — that’s courtesy of Mike Burden who would go swimming with his dad through a hole cut in the lake (the big spool is to keep snowmobiles from hitting the hole).

I don’t think it’s really cheating, but he admits that they cheated — they’d sit in the sauna for a while, and then jump into the lake for a minute or two, and then dash back into the sauna.

Returning Soon

Posted on June 5, 2008 | 3 Comments

I’m working on bringing this site back to life, both as a homepage for the Toronto Winter Swim Club, and as a blog about winter swimming and related activities in general. When you see posts above this one, you’ll know that we’re alive again!

More recent winter swimming pictures

Posted on December 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

These were taken in the 2007/2008 winter season — much colder than the previous one — at Toronto’s Cherry Beach. Yes, it’s raining — it could barely be called wet snow. The temperature dropped right after this swim.

Winter Night Swimming

Posted on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I believe we did this swim late in the 2006/2007 winter season. My daughter came along as the server of hot chocolate and had a great time, asking to swim the next time.

More Winter Swim Photos

Posted on February 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

These are from the 2006/2007 season:

And this video is from the very first time we jumped in — so briefly — in December 2006. I think we stayed in for at most two or three minutes that time, not sure to expect… Within the week all of us were swimming for ten or fifteen minutes in the cold.