Fire and…Well, it was still cold!
The temperatures may not have been quite as cold this year, but it was still pretty darn cold. Especially for those running the streets in the morning or floating the river.
The annual Fire and Ice Winter Festival in Lava Hot Springs was less icy than it has been in past years, as far as anyone remembered off hand. While temperatures were comfortably in the fifties by midday, the “Running of the Bulls” during the early morning and the afternoon river float were still, well, very cold.
“I wasn’t here last year,” Ryan Ward from Ammon admitted. “So I can’t compare. But to me, this is still insanely cold to be doing this!”
The Fire and Ice Winter Festival brings in crowds from all around southern Idaho and northern Utah for a day of food, music, hypothermia-risking recreation, and bragging rights. The warmer than usual temperatures still allowed for all of that, and possibly brought even more folks out to enjoy the early sun.
There to greet them were representatives from Malad businesses, including Ediths Collective, the IronDoor Smokehouse, Mystic Peacock, and Hazel Blues, and Twisted Iron.
It’s hard to hope that next year things will be back to frigid and icy, but there it is.
