Posted on 01/22/2017 2:48:15 PM PST by NRx
The Russian tradition of taking an ice-water plunge to celebrate the Feast of Theophany (Epiphany in the Christian West). They cut giant cross shaped holes in the ice that covers Russian lakes and rivers and put steps in for people go down and do the traditional triple immersion celebrating the Baptism of Christ and their own.
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We do that in Lake Ontario every year...They’re nuts.
Now you know why Hitler could never defeat them.
1/8 russian here. hoping i got the hardiness that comes along with it, as i didnt get the love for vodka.
67 degrees below zero is my personal cold temperature record.
Interior Alaska, December 1970. I was dressed appropriately and did not go swimming that day, however.
I couldn't believe that my car started after having sat for 13 hours (it was -20F when I arrived).
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club jumps into the freezing Atlantic waters off Coney Island on New Year’s Day every year, in Brooklyn. Cra-zy!
T-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-tough people.
for me too, Galena, Alaska,1959. on the Yukon doing the Mukluk Shuffle.
I thought my personal best at -45 F was cold. But - I was in a cabin with no insulation and the wood stove helped, but not much. Woke up in the morning and frost was all the way up the walls on the inside!
Not a problem, I imagine, if one is loaded up on vodka.
LOL.
Then you may not get that kind of hardiness.
Somehow I can't help but thinking that the vodka plays a role in the icy dip.
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