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The founders of the New Year’s Day Polar Plunge hold hands before jumping into the lake for the first time in 1978 in this photo published in the Coeur d’Alene Press in 1999.

The founders of the New Year’s Day Polar Plunge hold hands before jumping into the lake for the first time in 1978 in this photo published in the Coeur d’Alene Press in 1999.

January 1, 2019

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Original plungers: Older, sure, but still wild and crazy, too
January 1, 2019 midnight

Original plungers: Older, sure, but still wild and crazy, too

COEUR d’ALENE — Not much has changed, Bryan Riba said, standing in the sand on Sanders Beach Monday as a frigid breeze rippled across a silvery Lake Coeur d’Alene.