“Do or do not. There is no try.” Yoda. So we did. Did very quickly became done. For a polar bear, 47 degree water would have been balmy, but for polar bear wanna bes, it was frigid. To paraphrase Lao-Tzu, “ A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single plunge. And as crazy as it sounds, it was perfection. Formidable became fantastic, along side a friend.