Our Scoutmaster wrote:
And the legend grows … The water will get colder with each re-telling of the tale, of course, and even now I believe it has gotten to the point that we had to break through the ice to get to the water.
Seriously–the water was probably around 55 degrees. The picture was taken yesterday around 9:30 AM. The sub was warm and the water, while cold, was clear and smooth. Air temperature was probably 65 degrees. Unfortunately, I didn’t take my iButton temperature module with me so we will never know how cold it really was. We know it was below freezing the first night because we couldn’t open the water containers the next morning until we broke the ice seal.
But I think we have set a record for the latest date for a swim in a pond in New Hampshire . When Geoff’s mother asked if it was cold, Geoff said “Once my vision cleared, it was fine.”
-Hank
To see a proof of this record setting swim …
