By John Bear, The Boulder Daily Camera
The Boulder Polar Plunge is returning to the Boulder Reservoir next year, but it won’t be on New Year’s Day.
Despite historically being held on the first of the year, it will instead take place on Jan. 7, according to the event’s sponsor, the American Cancer Society.
“We found out that because the first is in the middle of a long holiday weekend, it made it hard for a lot of people in the community to participate,” said Lisa McAlister, a member of the leadership committee for the event.
“We wanted to be inclusive in terms of who can make it,” McAlister said. “We had a lot of companies that wanted to come out, and that wouldn’t have been feasible on a holiday weekend.”
The Boulder County AIDS Project dropped management of the event in April 2015, and the American Cancer Society took over the annual plunge. The event was canceled for 2016, however, because the American Cancer Society said that it did not have enough time to prepare for it.
