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Archive Home > 2003 > January > 02 > Jump-starting the new year

Jump-starting the new year

About 150 people join the fourth annual Polar Bear Plunge and begin 2003 with an icy eye opener

By Anne Aurand / The Bulletin
January 2, 2003

Some 150 people jumped into the New Year with a splash on Wednesday morning.

A very cold splash.

The water in the pool in Sunriver - where the fourth annual Polar Bear Plunge took place - was about 33 degrees when the crowd gathered around the pool's rim.

Snow flurried around their bare legs and....

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