Right now the thunderstorms have moved in, placing a literal and figurative damper on the Chicago Air and Water Show. And, of course, swimming inRead More
Category: Lake Monsters
The forecast called for the possibility of t-storms this morning, but we lucked out – they didn’t arrive until five hours later! So a wholeRead More
The Swim Across America event was cancelled due to e. coli levels at Ohio Street Beech, so we moved the party over to L1 –Read More
I was out of town this beautiful Saturday morning, so Danny took charge and documented a number of new Lake Monsters – Mike(119), Noah (120),Read More
I met up with new Lake Monster Brian out at L1 at 6:00am this morning, and the conditions were pretty choppy! We had a steadyRead More
Hailing all the way from Switzerland, here is Nina, Lake Monster #117. After her swim, she borrowed Dave’s gear and took the grand tour ofRead More
What can I say other than if you slept in, you missed out on one of the best swims in recorded L1 history! We hadRead More
All’s well that ends well… The weekend started out fantastically on Saturday morning with a whole swarm of Lake Monsters making it out to L1Read More
The good news is that we had a great turnout -14 swimmers with more showing up later. Plus, we had a 66F lake with aRead More
I have a brief respite from travel/work, so I’m posting some stuff that Dave sent me. Bottom line, Saturday was about as close to perfectionRead More