An overhead view of the track during the men’s 15k freestyle Nordic ski race on Feb. 8. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Katharine Ogden ’21 prepares for the women’s 10km freestyle on Friday morning. She took second place with a finish time of 30:19.4. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Keene Morawitz ’21, front, and Tyler Lee ’21 at the men’s 15k. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Students line up for the annual polar plunge at Occom Pond. “It’s cold and it’s crazy, but it’s part of the Dartmouth experience,” says polar plunger Ryan Monasch ’19. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Mallory Byrd ’19, front, and Grace Callahan ’19 dive in. “It’s actually a little bit balmy today,” Byrd says. “We’re in the upper 30s. It feels like summer vacation, just a day by the beach.” (Photo by Robert Gill)

After the chilly plunge into Occom Pond, students warm up with hot cocoa at the Roth Center for Jewish Life. (Photo by Robert Gill)

A bonfire at the Dartmouth Organic Farm puts a cozy cap on the day’s outdoor festivities. (Photo by Seamore Zhu ’19)

Extreme wind conditions at the Dartmouth Skiway on Feb. 9, delayed the slalom events and shut down the lift, so the Skiway crew towed skiers and coaches up the mountain. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Leah Brams ’21, center, and Emily Hyde ’19, right, compete in the women’s 3x5k classic relay. Their team, which also included Katharine Ogden ’21, captured third place. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00 )

Tanguy Nef ’20 launches out of the starting gate of the men’s slalom at the Dartmouth Skiway on Saturday. He claimed first place, two seconds ahead of the second-place time. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Ellie Curtis ’22 makes her collegiate debut in the women’s slalom. She finished second, just 0.43 seconds behind first place. (Photo by Robert Gill)

The annual human dogsled race took over the Green on Saturday afternoon. Here, Nikita Swinnen-Galbraith ’19 takes off with her team. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00 )

John P. Flores ’22 pulls his team through an impressive run with absolutely no spills. “It was great!” he says. “It was a team effort. We came out here and executed perfectly!” (Photo by Robert Gill)

… Not everyone had quite the same success. (Photo by Seamore Zhu ’19)

Across from the Green, students carve blocks of ice for the annual ice sculpture contest. Lily Xu ’18 won last year’s contest and teamed up with her partner from last year, Jackson Harris ’20, and some additional friends to try for another win. “It’s really heartwarming to be back during such a big weekend,” she says. (Photo by Robert Gill)

Olivia Champ ’19 chips away at her team’s unnamed, freehanded ice sculpture. “We’ll name it at the very, very end,” she says, in case the weekend’s unpredictable weather shapes it into a much different sculpture. “It’s the perfect marriage of art and the environment.” (Photo by Robert Gill)

The Occom Pond Party brings the campus and area community together every year. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00 )

There’s plenty of warm drink and winter fun to go around. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00)

For the past five years, the pond party has featured an ice castle constructed with blocks of ice harvested from the hole cut out for the polar plunge. (Photo by Eli Burakian ’00 )