It was a beautiful day to be at Woodlawn Beach State Park on Saturday afternoon (if you consider 40 degrees and cloudy to be beautiful). Over $100,000 was raised this year by our annual Buffalo, NY Polar Plunge. Buffalonians came out in packs to show some support for…

Part of the Polar Plunge’s allure is the uncomfortable feeling of diving into frigid water, and you’re going to want to warm…

As the temperatures plummet into the mid-30s next week—and those are the highs!—the Western New York Polar Plunge should meet expectations. An…

Maybe you visited a friend’s beach house this summer and got hooked on kayaks, or maybe you rented from BFLO Harbor Kayak and puttered around near the grain elevators on a glorious summer evening.…

The next best thing to beach volleyball will be hitting up Buffalo next week.

The 2012 Beach Tennis USA National Championships will be taking place from August 3 to 5 at Woodlawn Beach State Park.…

The annual "Freezin for a Reason" Polar Plunge at Woodlawn Beach was held on Saturday to benefit Special Olympics. Plungers enjoyed an uncharacteristically beautiful day by tailgating, dancing, and eventually swimming in an ice cold lake in the middle of winter in Buffalo.…

So you’ve been submerged in frozen water.  Your odds of survival?  Not great, my friend:

“Cold water removes heat from the body 25 times faster than cold air. About 50% of that…