I decid­ed to change the pace a lit­tle bit and swim unsup­port­ed around Lake Tahoe this sum­mer. It took me about 7 days to swim the 72 miles. This was a nice change of pace com­pared to hik­ing. I like swim­ming and it feels great to actu­al­ly get some upper body exer­cise. The water tem­per­a­ture was between 45 degrees and 65 degrees depend­ing on where I was on the lake. It was a bit chilly at times so I would have to stop every 2–3 hours to warm up, since I did­n’t wear a wet­suit. My inten­tion was for no advan­tage, so no wet­suit, fins, or any­thing like that. Except for a few days with after­noon thun­der­storms, this was real­ly a great challenge.

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