Tag: cold

Lake Lure Polar Plunge

Lake Lure Polar Plunge

Lake Lure held it’s third annual, and largest to date, New Year’s Day Polar Plunge for charity. As you can imagine, costumes are encouraged, hangovers required, and hot toddys consumed later. Even though the air temp was a balmy 47 F, the water was near freezing. Swimmers ranged in age from 13-62 and came from [...]

waiting n the rain to swim

Asheville White Christmas 2010

Asheville White Christmas 2010

In 1969 the airport at Asheville reported a record 5.4 inches of snow. Records are meant to be broken, that’s why we keep them, right? December 25, 2010 is now in the record books as the snowiest Christmas Day in Asheville with 6.5 inches recorded at the airport. Of course there are many areas with [...]

decorations in snow

Asheville–How Cold Was It?

Asheville–How Cold Was It?

Man, it was cold out there. 16 when I took this at about 11am

nearly frozen looking glass falls