https://coldlakeswimmers.com/A year-round swim log from the lakes around Zarasai: water temperatures, ice holes, thaw weeks, dawn crossings and the habits that get everyone out again.enhttps://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/six-things-in-the-bag/https://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/six-things-in-the-bag/The short list of kit that earns its place through a Lithuanian winter, the gear that does not, and the counting habits that matter more than any of it.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/below-ten-degrees/https://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/below-ten-degrees/The one reading that sets the whole winter plan, why a minute per degree is only a ceiling, and the twenty minutes on the bank that decide the morning.Sun, 09 Nov 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/cutting-an-ice-hole/https://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/cutting-an-ice-hole/Where to cut and where not to, how to push the slab under instead of lifting it out, keeping a hole open at minus fifteen, and planning the exit first.Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:00:00 GMThttps://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/dawn-swims-in-july/https://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/dawn-swims-in-july/The flat hour before the wind gets up, a lake that layers warm over cold, boats on the crossing line, and the carelessness that warm water brings.Sun, 07 Jul 2024 12:00:00 GMThttps://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/the-thaw-fortnight/https://coldlakeswimmers.com/journal/the-thaw-fortnight/Two or three weeks when the ice is neither safe nor gone, the water runs colder than it did in January, and the entry has to be chosen twice.Sun, 24 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT