Lake Pend Oreille, Sandpoint ID, Long Bridge Swim, 6 August 2011, 1.76 miles, ca. 800 swimmers, wetsuit recommended (water temp 60-70 degrees F).
longbridgeswim.org/index.shtml
This swim, in addition to being a premier inland lake swim for Pacific Northwest, raises money to teach children and adults how to swim.
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Lake Pend Oreille, Sandpoint ID, Long Bridge Swim, 6 August 2011, 1.76 miles, ca. 800 swimmers, wetsuit recommended (water temp 60-70 degrees F).
longbridgeswim.org/index.shtml
This swim, in addition to being a premier inland lake swim for Pacific Northwest, raises money to teach children and adults how to swim.
:)This is a GREAT swim. I did it a few summers back when it was a Nat'l champ and it's a great swim. I'm the first one to don a wetsuit when I can and it's cold, but this lake is pretty shallow and was nice without one. The town of Sandpoint is a GREAT little gem too and the surrounding broader geo area is one of the great summertime places to hang in the country.
A missed turn in the road took me to Sandpoint. I was astounded! Beautiful lake - many estuaries, bights and inlets, attracting migratory birds (birdwatchers will be familiar with the names Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille).
The Flathead L. swim (Mission Valley Aquatics) is the same day, and registration is open now:
www.mvaquatics.org/wd_registration.asp
Point to LaPointe swim in Lake Superior is usually that weekend as well.
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A missed turn in the road took me to Sandpoint. I was astounded! Beautiful lake - many estuaries, bights and inlets, attracting migratory birds (birdwatchers will be familiar with the names Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille).
The Flathead L. swim (Mission Valley Aquatics) is the same day, and registration is open now:
www.mvaquatics.org/wd_registration.asp
Though Sandpoint and Polson are not exactly next door to each other, they are close enough that I wish they'd hold these on separate weekends back-to-back. I did the Polson swim in 2009 and it was great fun with excellent people/atmosphere (race report here forums.usms.org/blog.php it'd be even better to bookend a week's trip to that area with each swim if they were scheduled thus.
That would be great, but once a community-type swim is in place for a couple of years, it's pretty difficult to move (anecdotally). However, worth talking to meet organizers, I suppose.
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