Hampus Carlsson Wins 2020 Wetsuits Open Water Virtual Grand Slam
Hampus Carlsson won the 2020 Wetsuits event at the Open Water Virtual Grand Slam founded by Mark Johnston of Flathead Lake Open Water Swimmers.
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Krista Belanger, Eric Nilsson Win 2020 Skins Open Water Virtual Grand Slam
Eric Nilsson, Kurt Dickson, Hampus Carlsson, Mark Johnston, and Krista Belanger went 1-2-3-4-5 in the Overall Skins Grand Slam at the 2020 Open Water Virtual Grand Slam
Lockdown Swimming Around The World
Lockdown Swimming Around The World Courtesy of WOWSA, Cape Town, South Africa and Flathead Lake, Montana. Open water swimmers are flexible, adaptable, and creative. If the water gets rougher or colder, they adapt and swim on. If the currents and tides gets stronger and flows in the opposite direction, they adapt to the situation both mentally and
Chasing The Grizzly
Courtesy of Mark Johnston, a swimmer follows in some big paw prints across Flathead Lake, Montana. Over Labor Day weekend in 2010, a four-year-old female grizzly bear swam a remarkable 15 miles across Flathead Lake in northwest Montana. Although known to be capable swimmers, grizzly bears don’t often come across lakes as large as Flathead in their
3 Nations Take Part In Lakeside Lighthouse Loop
Courtesy of Mark Johnston of Lake Monsters, Montana. Flathead Lake, the largest natural fresh water lake west of the Mississippi, was the setting for the inaugural Lakeside Lighthouse Loop on July 12th where 25 swimmers from the United States, Canada, and Belgium swam in either the 1.4-mile “Lighthouse Loop” or the 2.4-mile Ironman Loop. “The course
Go With The FLOW In Flathead Lake
Mark Johnston recently relocated from Denver, Colorado to Polson, Montana to help open a new aquatic center that sits next to Flathead Lake, the largest fresh water lake west of the Mississippi River. He and his wife wasted no time and got into the flow of combining the joys and challenges of pool and open water swimming. "Our mission is to develop both