Bywater Sauna’s parking spot is right next to the Puget Sound cold plunge.
Get hot, get cold, repeat. No, it’s not the yo-yo weather patterns of a Washington winter or the shorthand for an unhealthy relationship; that’s the rhythm of sauna culture. It’s a leisure activity that takes you from a room hotter than Phoenix in July to waters exactly as cold as Puget Sound in January.
And Seattle is in a sauna boom. The practice has roots that trace back to Nordic traditions, where enjoying a sauna is as common as taking a walk, and to the social Roman baths of the ancient era. This year,
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