Winter Dipping in Lake Champlain In January, the UK's Guardianwrote about "the exhilarating joy of outdoor ice-bathing," a centuries-old practice that has "soared during lockdown" as a much-needed pandemic stress reliever and endorphin releaser. "It's pretty normal if you're in Sweden or Denmark or Finland," said Burlington painter Katharine Montstream of the pastime. "In the UK, this is huge, and it's really blowing up. Especially with [the] pandemic, they have had a huge surge of people wanting to do this and needing outlets." The same is true in Vermont, it seems. Montst...