It's In The Water!

Okay, we get it. The lake is NOT one of the clearest lakes in the land of 10,000 lakes. It's rootbeer stained (because eventually the St Louis River drops some water in the tributary). We don't care. Period. End. We've swam in December, April, May, we've swan in October. It's all the same! There's something magical about Long Lake! The big joke for years was that we were going to swim in the New Year, we finally did it to ring in 2009!  Pokey Swanson said "let's do it", but the thought was he was only kidding.  The roar of the chainsaw broke the silence, and a new tradition was quickly born!  There's nothing better than an ice cold beer, a dip in the lake on a hot August day (especially when it's not raining) or after a long sauna anytime of the year!