IOCP’s Annual Sleep Out in Plymouth
Eighteen years ago, on a brisk November day, Wayzata shoe repairman Bob Fisher was strolling through a sporting goods store. “I was trying to learn how to do something in the wintertime,” he remembers. “As soon as it got cold outside, I didn’t ice skate or play hockey or ski. I did nothing. So I thought, maybe I can learn how to winter camp.” Fisher found a slick mummy-style sleeping bag—with a minus-5 temperature rating—and started to get excited. “I thought, ‘I’m going to set up my tent and everything!’ It was the middle of November and about 15 degrees at night.” Read more about IOCP’s Annual Sleep Out in Plymouth
