You don't have to be young and crazy to go water skiing in the Mississippi on New Year's Day.  Old and crazy will do. Lots of c...

Sorry no post yesterday. Sometimes life intrudes. Every New Year's Day a group of people goes water skiing in the Mississippi R...

A  last note about sub-zero aquatics on New Year's Day. I admit to being a cold weenie but having the aromatic spray from the Missis...

I didn't see anyone dressed like this in the frigid Mississippi after I arrived but I suspect the event began before the advertised...

It was -5F / -20.5C when I woke up yesterday morning. At noon on the riverfront it was 4F / -15.5. The water temperature was just below ...

We assume these people knew what they were doing, but, geez, is this really fun? Some, like the woman in the top photo, wore the approp...

Santa made a wrong turn somewhere around Minneapolis while trying to find his way home. Actually, this is one of the members of the...

It happens here and there in the northern US and, I assume, cold places around the world. People jump into bodies of icy water on New Y...

It was definitely do your own thing on New Year's Day at the riverfront. Nice young ladies could join the geezers and go for an icy...

One of the people water skiing in the Mississippi on New Year's Day. I hadn't seen this costume in previous years. For those ou...

It was New Year's Day and time to go visit my friends from the Missouri Disabled Water Ski Association doing their annual Polar Be...

. The announcer said the water temperature was 35 F / 2 C. The air was a notch warmer but then the river comes from way up north. Neverthele...

. Okay, who's old enough to remember The Ventures playing Wipe Out ? Yeah, there we were, me and my friends hanging out under the el on ...

. Okay, so the water temperature was about 34 F / 1 C. The skiers were, for the most part, wearing wet suits (although often with bare feet ...

. A St. Louis New Year's Day tradition: a large group of people gather at the edge of the Mississippi and go water skiing. On the most ...

. I've never seen anything like it in my life. While I was shooting the New Year's Day water skiing in the Mississippi, a man walke...

. We interrupt our coverage of First Night in St. Louis for the following news bulletin: New Year's Day was cold but not bitterly so. So...