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I waded up to about my knees, and that was far enough for me.    She did have fairly generous natural insulation, mind....

I know exactly what you mean about mountain streams.    Once, many years ago, I was going up Ben Macdui, the second highest mountain in Britain; it was midsummer (end of June) and a heatwave.   People joke that a heatwave in northern Scotland is when you only have to put one jumper on to go outside, but I was living in the south of England at the time, and even I thought it was hot that day.    So I was tempted by a dip in Coire-an-Lochain as I passed on the way up.    This is the most appropriate pic I can find of it on the web (I didn't have my own camera that day, and it would have been on film not electronic anyway in these days) : https://heavywhalley.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/2015-hat-with-a-view-june.jpg

I chose a bit where I could go straight into deep water.    And instantly thought I was going to die - I could feel the heat rushing out of my body and my strength slipping away, and I floundered round and scrambled frantically out again immediately.   There was less snow than in this pic, but still some (in fact in some years these high north-facing corries never lose their snow all summer), and obviously the water in the lochan had come straight off the snow above; it must have been only just above freezing.    It certainly did the trick though; my wet clothes kept me wonderfully cool for the rest of the climb to the plateau, and dried out just in time for the more level walk onwards to the actual summit.    But never again - that was genuinely frightening.