(WCAX) - Some 1,000 Vermonters will jump into a frigid Lake Champlain ... to remember an extra pair of shoes for when you come out of the water, as well as extra warm clothes and towels.

Gray skies, colder-than-normal water and strong rip currents couldn’t deter a few thousand people from starting off the new year by jumping in the ocean as part of the annual Penguin Plunge in ...