Canada’s hair freezing contest

[jjohnwm]

Hmmmm...as in, I did the Polar Bear Swim thing a number of years running when I was in my 20's, and really don't have a lot of interest in repeating it now.

That was in extreme southwestern Ontario, which is actually further south than the northern tip of California. The trick was to shed your outer clothes and then loiter for a few minutes before you jump into the water. It gave your skin a chance to cool down so there was less shock when you go in.

Up here in Manitoba, the air is usually far colder than the water, which makes the water feel "warm" to our addled brains when we first dip our skin into it. I'm talking about reaching in with bare hands while ice fishing; happiness is a warm fish. I don't do the full-body-thing anymore.

Regardless of whether the water "seems" warm compared to the air, or close to ice as it actually is...it sucks the heat out of your body so fast that you don't dare dawdle!

Okay, Esox, once again it is translation time! When you refer to "talking bollocks"...does that mean that what you are saying is classified as "bollocks"...or that some portion of your anatomy, which you have affectionately christened "bollocks", has grown the ability to speak independently of the rest of you?

If it's the latter...do you suppose you could teach those vocal bollocks to speak a somewhat less "British" version of English so that we poor colonials can follow along more easily?

 

[esoxlucius]

Okay, Esox, once again it is translation time!

Dear dear, you know me well enough by now to know what "talking bollocks" is!

Actually, as well as making a new years resolution to reduce my sugar intake, I was going to make one to vow to reduce the amount of verbal diarrhea I come out with.

But it comes so naturally to me it's a resolution I could never hope to keep, lol.

 

[Niki_up]

Well, I think the gauntlet has well and truly been thrown down in good old Canuckistan fashion.

All we need now is Niki_up and her grizzly countrymen RD. and jjohnwm to strip down to their undercrackers, jump in the nearest freezing lake and get creative, lol.

I think I can safely say, on behalf of the whole forum, that we eagerly await the resulting photos!

I believe most of these pictures were taken in hot springs. Unfortunately most of the hot springs have been closed due to covid so I shall not be participating lol

maybe if I end up in my gfs hot tub I can make a mini recreation

 

[Niki_up]

Hmmmm...as in, I did the Polar Bear Swim thing a number of years running when I was in my 20's, and really don't have a lot of interest in repeating it now.

That was in extreme southwestern Ontario, which is actually further south than the northern tip of California. The trick was to shed your outer clothes and then loiter for a few minutes before you jump into the water. It gave your skin a chance to cool down so there was less shock when you go in.

Up here in Manitoba, the air is usually far colder than the water, which makes the water feel "warm" to our addled brains when we first dip our skin into it. I'm talking about reaching in with bare hands while ice fishing; happiness is a warm fish. I don't do the full-body-thing anymore.

Regardless of whether the water "seems" warm compared to the air, or close to ice as it actually is...it sucks the heat out of your body so fast that you don't dare dawdle!

Okay, Esox, once again it is translation time! When you refer to "talking bollocks"...does that mean that what you are saying is classified as "bollocks"...or that some portion of your anatomy, which you have affectionately christened "bollocks", has grown the ability to speak independently of the rest of you?

If it's the latter...do you suppose you could teach those vocal bollocks to speak a somewhat less "British" version of English so that we poor colonials can follow along more easily?

I do t think I would ever be brave enough to do the polar bear challenge! I’m cold just thinking about it

 

[jjohnwm]

I was certainly never "brave" enough...but I was definitely stupid enough!

By the way, Esox...we don't have any freezing lakes. All we have are frozen lakes, which are way, way more difficult to jump into...

A few of us went on a tentative ice-fishing trip yesterday; just a couple of mid-day hours, nothing expeditionary. One fellow was new to the joys of hard-water fishing. He took his turn on the auger, and we watched with anticipation as he neared the bottom of the 40 inches of ice. Sure enough, he broke through while leaning forward and looking into the hole...and got a high-pressure jet of ice-cold water in the face as the water rocketed up through the new hole.

A good time was had by (almost) all!

 

[jjohnwm]

I believe most of these pictures were taken in hot springs. Unfortunately most of the hot springs have been closed due to covid so I shall not be participating lol

maybe if I end up in my gfs hot tub I can make a mini recreation

Aha! So that's how get that weird-hair thing going! I guess it's the condensation from the steam?

Being totally bald, I'd have a hard time pulling off a "do" like that...unless it were solid ice stuck to my head.

 

[Niki_up]

Aha! So that's how get that weird-hair thing going! I guess it's the condensation from the steam?

Being totally bald, I'd have a hard time pulling off a "do" like that...unless it were solid ice stuck to my head.

I assume they purposely add water to their hair in sections and shape it bit by bit as it freezes.
Id still be worried about hitting my hair on something and ending up with an unwanted haircut lol

 

[esoxlucius]

He took his turn on the auger,

I've only ever seen this done on television. What would scare the hell out of me is if you went into the middle of a snow sprinkled freezing lake, lol, you started it, and they started drilling, and the ice was only a couple of inches thick!! Not the 3-4' that they expected.

I suspect everyone would nervously look at each other as an ever so slight cracking sound came from beneath their feet, lol.

But of course this scenario is very unlikely to happen given the lengthy, and brutal temperatures which thicken the ice in the first place....or does it indeed occur during a relative warm spell?