The sport is no stunt, as swimmer Mackenzie Koeck and her support crew learned in the yearlong runup of preparation.

"Just do it." Yes, that’s a 20-year-old advertising slogan and practically a cultural joke now. But that tagline gets startlingly real as my bare toes clasp a gnarly rock ledge and I stare 30 feet ...

More than 100 years ago, Joe Biddle purchased a piece of property on the southeastern shore of Loon Lake, less than an hour from Spokane, and called it Granite Point Resort. In the early days, the ...

Swimming at Dow’s Lake is not for the squeamish. Although authorities insist the water quality is fine, anyone who’s been in Ottawa for a few freeze-thaw cycles has seen the crap on the bottom when ...