A large gray rock leads down to a fast-flowing mountain creek with ice cover on the edges and over a small pool
A large gray rock leads down to a fast-flowing mountain creek with ice cover on the edges but NOT over the small pool below the rock (I broke it out with a heavy iron bar)
A digital thermometer immersed in the water of the small pool, held in my fingers, reads 32.0 Fahrenheit. An ice-wreathed rock in the background
Me, a white woman, smiling & wearing slightly tinted glasses, in front of the same creek, with straight brown hair that’s wet from having done a cold plunge in the 32-degree water. I’m wearing a teal green hat on my wet head with my bangs sticking out, and a light blue fleece jacket.
December is typically a tough #fullimmersion in #RapidCreek.
Not as acclimated to the cold as I’ll be in the deeper winter months.
And that snow-and-icemelt-fed water is 🥶
