Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
AuSable Forks volunteer firefighters (from left to right) Kody Hart, Chris Thwaits II, Derrick Martineau and Doug Seguin braved 40-degree water Saturday to participate in the first annual AuSable Forks Fire Department Polar Plunge at Fern Lake. Seguin organized the event, which raised $600 to train two of the station's volunteers in swift-rescue techniques.(P-R Photo/Shaun Kittle)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach.

(P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach. (P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
Sunday, November 4, 2012. More than 200 people took a cool dip in Lake Champlain during the third-annual Polar Plunge at the Plattsburgh City Beach.

(P-R Photo/Rob Fountain)
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