<p>Participants in the Polar Bear Plunge run into the 40-degree waters of Lake Coeur dAlene. The air temperature read 16-degrees at the time of the plunge.</p>
January 1, 2015
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January 1, 2015 1:28 p.m.
Polar Plunge
COEUR d’ALENE — From near and far, people of all ages began gathering at Sanders Beach more than an hour before the silence of a crisp first day of the year was shattered by the sounds of hundreds plunging into frigid Lake Coeur d’Alene.