Cold-Plunge Enthusiast Stays Put as Outdoor Tub Freezes Over

An outdoor tub in western Montana could be seen freezing over while a man soaked in it on Thursday, January 23, as https://x.com/NWSMissoula/status/1881800212341240221/photo/2">temperatures hovered in the single digits. Footage captured by Vincent Salvatore Zepeda shows an outdoor tub freezing over in Hamilton, Montana, on Thursday, while Zepeda soaked in it for 35 minutes. Zepeda, who wears protective gloves and booties during his extreme cold-water adventures, can be seen breaking a layer of ice in the tub. "Ducky says 32," said Zepeda, referring to a thermometer attached to a rubber duck in the water. Zepeda, who experiments with cold-water therapy, told Storyful that he began to notice ice crystals forming in the tub as he increased the duration of his sessions, and wanted to capture a full freeze-over of the tub. (Footage by Vincent Salvatore Zepeda/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)