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A cool way to start the year!

Published 1:30 am Thursday, January 8, 2026

Seventeen brave souls line up on the shores of Lake Pleasant on New Year’s morning, waiting for Carin Hirsch’s ringing of the bell, indicating the start of the annual plunge. Another photo page 3. Photo by Lonnie Archibald
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Seventeen brave souls line up on the shores of Lake Pleasant on New Year’s morning, waiting for Carin Hirsch’s ringing of the bell, indicating the start of the annual plunge. Another photo page 3. Photo by Lonnie Archibald

Seventeen brave souls line up on the shores of Lake Pleasant on New Year’s morning, waiting for Carin Hirsch’s ringing of the bell, indicating the start of the annual plunge. Another photo page 3. Photo by Lonnie Archibald
And seventeen take the plunge into the cool waters at the Lake Pleasant County Park on this cool start of the new year. Photo by Lonnie Archibald

Seventeen brave souls line up on the shores of Lake Pleasant on New Year’s morning, waiting for Carin Hirsch’s ringing of the bell, indicating the start of the annual plunge. Another photo page 3. Photo by Lonnie Archibald