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❄️ Clear Lake Polar Bear Plunge 2025 🐻❄️

❄️ Clear Lake Polar Bear Plunge 2025 🐻❄️
Location: City Beach, Clear Lake, IA • Check-in at VFW Post 4868 and then at the Clear Lake Yacht Club
Who: Seasoned plungers, brave first-timers, and Toe Dippers alike!
Why: Support Toys for Tots, Compassionate Connections, and Kids & Families in Need 🙌
🌊 About the Event
Join us for the Clear Lake Polar Bear Plunge 2025—the most exhilarating splash of the year! Take the plunge into the icy waters of City Beach for a heart-pounding, memory-making experience. Whether you’re a veteran plunger or a first-timer, come embrace the cold, challenge yourself, and warm some hearts along the way! 💙
🎟️ Registration & Sweatshirt
- Registration: A donation benefiting Toys for Tots, Compassionate Connections, & Kids & Families in Need.
- Minimum Donation: $60 includes a 2025 Polar Bear Plunge grey crew-neck sweatshirt.
- Shirt Sizes Guaranteed: Until November 6. After that, sizes (S–2XL) are first-come, first-served based on extras ordered.
- Sweatshirts will be available for pickup at event check-in.
🗓️ Day-of Schedule
- 10:30 AM: Check-in/Registration & Pre-Party at the VFW in Clear Lake (includes 1 free drink ticket from the VFW! 🥤)
- 12:00 PM: Check-in/Registration moves to the Clear Lake Yacht Club
- 12:30 PM: Plunge time! 🌊❄️
🧣 Warming tents will be onsite for changing afterward. Provide your team name at check-in to be announced and plunge together. Fun costumes encouraged (not required)! 🎭
🦶 Toe Dippers Club
Want the sweatshirt and the fun without a full dunk? Join the Toe Dippers Club! You’ll still get the swag, pre-party/post-party access, and that “brrr!” moment with just a toe in the lake—while supporting our charities. It’s a win-win-win. ✅
📝 Tips for First-Timers
- 🧻 Pack a towel and water shoes
- 👙 Wear your swimsuit under your clothes
- 🧥 Bring easy-to-put-on warm clothes & shoes for after the plunge
- ⚠️ For safety, never dive into the water
- 🛍️ Bring a plastic bag for wet clothes and a safe spot for your dry gear
- 😄 Most important: Have fun!
📌 Notes
- By purchasing a ticket, you’ll be required to sign a waiver at registration.
- If the event is canceled due to weather, all registrations become a donation to our charities; you will still receive your swag.
- Want to support without dipping? Venmo: @ClearLake-Jaycees 🙏
🙏 Huge Thank You to Our Sponsors
- Bank Iowa
- First Citizens Bank
- Kingland
- Charlson Excavating
- VFW Post 4868 – Clear Lake
Ready to plunge? Rally your team, plan those costumes, and we’ll see you at City Beach! 🐻❄️🌊