Yahoo wrapped the link and it wouldn't work. Try this one.

http://community.webshots.com/user/kkokalas01


--- In LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com, "Craig" <crm365@...>
wrote:
>
> Here are some pictures taken on 1/1/2008 by a member of the Lake
George
> Winter Carnival Committee.
>
> http://community.webshots.com/album/561968546RzSkbx?
> vhost=community&start=0
>
> [URL=http://sports.webshots.com/album/561968546RzSkbx][IMG]
>
http://thumb14.webshots.net/t/50/650/9/86/44/2739986440100095974riehQA_t
> h.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
>

Here are some pictures taken on 1/1/2008 by a member of the Lake George
Winter Carnival Committee.

http://community.webshots.com/album/561968546RzSkbx?
vhost=community&start=0

[URL=http://sports.webshots.com/album/561968546RzSkbx][IMG]
http://thumb14.webshots.net/t/50/650/9/86/44/2739986440100095974riehQA_t
h.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

Video, pictures and articles of the 1/1/2008 are available on the Post
Star website.

http://poststar.com/

It was a front page story on the 1/2/2008 Post Star as well.

It also made the front page of The Daily Gazette and The Saratogian.

A video can be seen on the Capital News 9 website of the 1/1/2008 event.

Despite the heavy snow and bad driving conditions, we had about 650
swimmers.

By the time of the swim, the lake, which had been clear at 9 am, was
coated with a thick layer of slush from the snow. One person described
it as "swimming in a Slushie."

The most ironic thing I kept hearing was from people saying they
wouldn't go swimming because it was snowing. Where is the logic in
that? They'll go swimming in freezing cold water, but not if it's
snowing?

The next swims are in February, during Winter Carnival, every Saturday
and Sunday at 3pm.

Registration is being advertised as being at Duffy's Tavern, starting
at 10:30 am, on Tuesday, January 1, 2008. Swim is at 2:00 pm in
Shepherd Park.



--- In LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com, "chefseb" <chefseb@...>
wrote:
>
> please send info, links - for registration for 01/01/08 plunge, for
> individuals and groups
>
> thanks,
>
> chefseb
>

please send info, links - for registration for 01/01/08 plunge, for
individuals and groups

thanks,

chefseb

Last night I was informed that Simple Simon's will not be open on
1/1/2008. As of right now, all registrations for the New Years Day Swim
will take place at Duffy's Tavern.

Simple Simon's is expected to be open during weekends in February for
the Winter Carnival.

Just wanted to say that this is an entirely new event for Lake
George. It does not replace the traditional New Years Day Swim or the
swims in February, during Winter Carnival.

Registrations and events for the Special Olympics swim will take
place at Duffy's Tavern on 12/1/07.




--- In LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com, "Craig" <crm365@...>
wrote:
>
> The Special Olympics will be having a Polar Plunge in Lake George
on
> Satuday, 12/1/07.
>
> For more information, see their website.
>
> http://nyso.org/polarplunges/cdpphome.php
>

The Special Olympics will be having a Polar Plunge in Lake George on
Satuday, 12/1/07.

For more information, see their website.

http://nyso.org/polarplunges/cdpphome.php

We had 14 swimmers on 2/25/07.

We had 23 swimmers on 2/23/07.

There was a great article in the Post-Star yesterday, 2/18/07, about
our New Years Day Polar Bear Swim.

I believe we had 8 people in the water yesterday.

We still have two more swims coming up next weekend.

We had 23 swimmers in the water on Saturday, 2/17/07.

We had 13 swimmers on Sunday, 2/11/07. 10 of whom were from a college
in Boston, Mass.

Again, I can't stress the issues of footware enough. My toes are still
numb from Saturday.

We had 10 swimmers yesterday. I think only 1 was local. One was from
Montreal and another was Iowa.

Shoes! I can't stress wearing some kind of footware enough when doing
these swims. And yet I made the mistake of forgetting my own swim shoes
yesterday. My toes are still numb!

We made the cover of this weeks Chronicle with a picture from
Saturday's (2/3/07) swim.

I just posted in the Files section of this group a list of all the
registered swimmers from our 1/1/07 swim. It is in a pdf format.

My apologies for spelling errors. Some of the registrations were very
hard to read. And I thought I had bad hand writing....

The Winter Carnival Bicycle Race that was to be held on 2/11/07 has
been canceled.

This was a decision based on the lack of pre-registered racers and the
cost of running this event. We waited as long as we could to make this
decision.

Our 5K Run, however, is still on for 2/25/07. Registrations keep coming
in. We anticipate well over 100 runners.

Also, don't forget about the our new Date Auction on Friday 2/23 at the
Holiday Inn.

----- Original Message -----

From: gail L

To: LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:58 PM

Subject: Re: [LakeGeorgePolarPlunge] 2/3/07 and 2/4/07

what time do we swim

is there a place to change

your doing a great job witht the information

thank you keep up the great job!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Craig
To: LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LakeGeorgePolarPlunge] 2/3/07 and 2/4/07
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:46:52 -0000

Well it was a pretty good turn out for our first weekend of February
2007.

We had ice and a snow storm on 2/2/07 which made it that much better.

We had 20 swimmers on Saturday and 8 on Sunday. So far this is better
than any one day in 2006.

Hopefully we'll have more next weekend.

--

----- Original Message -----
From: Craig
To: LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [LakeGeorgePolarPlunge] 2/3/07 and 2/4/07
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:46:52 -0000

Well it was a pretty good turn out for our first weekend of February
2007.

We had ice and a snow storm on 2/2/07 which made it that much better.

We had 20 swimmers on Saturday and 8 on Sunday. So far this is better
than any one day in 2006.

Hopefully we'll have more next weekend.

Here are some pictures from the first weekend of the 2007 Lake George
Winter Carnival.

http://travel.webshots.com/album/557439945VmncZE

Well it was a pretty good turn out for our first weekend of February
2007.

We had ice and a snow storm on 2/2/07 which made it that much better.

We had 20 swimmers on Saturday and 8 on Sunday. So far this is better
than any one day in 2006.

Hopefully we'll have more next weekend.

I am now told that either due to a previous mis-print or a schedule
change in the Whitehall Times, that this will be on 2/3/07.



--- In LakeGeorgePolarPlunge@yahoogroups.com, "Craig" <crm0365@...>
wrote:
>
> From what I'm told the Whitehall Winter Fest will be on Saturday,
> 2/17/07.
>
> The Penguin Dip will be at the Whitehall Marina at 10:00 am that same
> day.
>

From what I'm told the Whitehall Winter Fest will be on Saturday,
2/17/07.

The Penguin Dip will be at the Whitehall Marina at 10:00 am that same
day.

Read what the Adirondack Pirates had to say about the New Years Day
Polar Bear Swim.

http://www.adirondackpiratepaddlers.org/events.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/nyregion/07heat.html?
_r=1&hp&ex=1168146000&en=8a6eba28239dbea7&ei=5094&partner=homepage&ore
f=slogin

72-Degree Day Breaks Record in New York
  Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
While many New Yorkers reveled in the record warmth, members of the
Coney Island Polar Bear Club, a winter swimming club, staged a silent
protest on the beach in Brooklyn.

By MANNY FERNANDEZ
Published: January 7, 2007
Hundreds of tourists and locals packed the ice-skating rink at
Rockefeller Center yesterday, pretending that it really was a cold,
snowy day in early January as they circled the ice beneath the giant
Christmas tree. In Brooklyn, eight members of a cold-water-braving
organization known as the Coney Island Polar Bear Club walked toward
the waves, some wearing nothing but swim trunks.

Richard Perry/The New York Times
The temperature was recorded at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.
The only thing that ruined this winter imagery was the temperature,
which in the middle of the afternoon in Central Park yesterday
reached a record-breaking 72 degrees.

And so the make-believe winter collided with reality: People wore T-
shirts as they ice-skated on the wet and slushy rink at Rockefeller
Center, and the Polar Bears held a moment of silence, turned their
backs on the Atlantic and headed toward the boardwalk, a protest,
albeit an underdressed one, against global warming, they said.

Louis Scarcella, 55, a former homicide detective and president of the
Coney Island club, said the weather has been so mild that he is
considering canceling the group's winter swimming season, which
usually runs from November to April. A club season has not been
canceled since the group was founded 104 years ago.

"I have not made the decision yet," Mr. Scarcella said gravely. "I
have to meet with my board.

"It's a possibility," he added. "It's not the extreme sport that we
love. It's a very easy swim."

The unseasonably warm spell shattered records around the city and the
state as well as throughout New Jersey and Connecticut. In Central
Park, the high temperature at 1:37 p.m. — 72 degrees — broke the
date's previous high of 63 degrees in 1950, the National Weather
Service reported.

It tied the highest temperature recorded in the park in January since
record-keeping began in the late 1800s, sharing that distinction with
a 72-degree high on Jan. 26, 1950.

The difference between the old and new records was even greater in
Bridgeport, Conn., the weather service said, where the high of 68 was
15 degrees above the previous record, in 1949. In Newark, the high of
72 was 11 degrees over the old mark, from 1950.

Although global warming is a popular theory for the Northeast's warm
winter, the Weather Service cited a specific meteorological
cause. "We have a mild air mass that we're in right now, kind of
tropical in nature," said John Murray, a meteorologist with the
National Weather Service in Upton, N.Y. "The cold air masses in
Canada have stayed up there."

At the Rockefeller Center rink yesterday, it was hard to find anyone
in the mood to complain. Susan Berardesca, who was visiting the city
from Pennsylvania, brought her son and two daughters, because
yesterday seemed as perfect a day for ice-skating as any other, she
said.

"It is what it is," she said of the weather. "I'm just enjoying it.
The snow will be here soon enough, then everyone will be
complaining."

The nearby ice-skating rink in Bryant Park, behind the New York
Public Library, was not as lucky. Managers kept it closed because the
chilling system could not keep the ice on the top layer of the rink
frozen in the warm weather.

Scattered puddles dotted the rink as people stood around glumly,
snapped photographs and rearranged their schedules.

"I just bought new skates," said Aileen Kwok, 18, a student at New
York Institute of Technology, who stood with her friends and her
Bauer ice skates at the padlocked door. "I guess now I have to go
shopping."

The rink was scheduled to reopen today, with temperatures expected to
be in the low 50s.

The Weather Service said that there was a "slight chance of snow
showers" on Tuesday, and that the low temperature by Tuesday night
was expected to fall to 29 degrees.

In Times Square yesterday, one street performer was rejoicing in the
seasonal flip-flop: Robert Burck, a k a the Naked Cowboy, who trolls
for cash wearing nothing but his cowboy hat, underwear, boots and
guitar. Business was brisk. "This is like a $1,000 day instead of a
$50 or $100 day in the winter," he said.

This video is funny. What I want to know is did the muppet go swimming?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qto3bri0U

A longer version of the 1/1/07 video is now available on You Tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPitypURtzA

The official count for the 1/1/07 Lake George Polar Plunge was 864
registrants.

That definitely beats last years numbers.