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WELCOME

Sponsors Welcome Information Be Responsible & Play Safe A Frozen History Blue Ball Bacon, Bourbon & Brews Event Information & Schedules Music Showcase Cryonics: The Cold Facts The Mayor of FDGD The Pink Socks Retire FDGD VIP FDGD Merchandise

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THANKS

elcome my frosty friends to the 15th annual Frozen Dead Guy Days! This will be my eighth year as event coordinator and it has been such an honor to get to know so many of you and be part of this Colorado classic that has created so many memories, facilitated both new and old connections and reminded us to freeze the day! This year we’ve added a third tent—Bacon, Bourbon and Brews— and moved the location of the Reanimate Yourself tent, coffin races and polar plunge due to impact and logistical reasons. I know that FDGD “frostifarians” will take and embrace the changes in stride, but we ask for your patience if its doesn’t glide like glass, but then again FDGD never does. FDGD is about “improvising, adapting and overcoming,” just like life, and in Grandpa’s case, death. The FDGD crew helps facilitate the festival, but FDGD’s core and continued existence lies in the spirit of its participants. Every year, while putting it all together, I’m endlessly surprised how the right person, group or business shows up at the right moment to add just the right touch or take care of something that needs attention. Or, how through some of the most adverse conditions, FDGD “frostifarians” find their way up to our special and unique mountain town to celebrate and be frozenly merry. To me, FDGD means: roots, fun, laughter, endurance, intuition, winter weather, friends, challenges, individuality, music and dancing, mortality and spirit. Stay cool and classy, and please respect the Town of Nederland and its community—FDGD can have a large impact on residents. Park where directed, make sure your trash makes it to the can, use the porto-potties and tip your servers. When given the choice to smile or not to smile you know what to do! Now lets get it off the list and into the bucket! — Amanda MacDonald, Festival Director

Frozen Dead Guy Days is produced by FDGD, LLC. FDGD, LLC would like to acknowledge and thank the Town of Nederland employees, the Nederland Police and Fire personnel, and its wonderfully unique community for their help and support with this event. Heartfelt thank you to all the volunteers and the above and beyond, made of hope and fairy dust, staff that found their way to Frozen Dead Guy Days. SPECIAL THANK YOU to those who have selflessly given their time, energy and creativity: Kallista Alli, Victoria Slominski, Bruce Lish, Sarah Martin, Michael Ruiz, Erin Vito, Stephanie Andelman, Erin Trumble, Gary Lennox, Chris Perret, Allen Hawkins, Jack Byers, James Hultgren, Jay Rizzi, LJ Bauer, Ron Mitchell, Teresa Warren,Tommy Cunningham, Bob “Mac”, Callum & Wyatt Coulson for supporting mom.

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rozen Dead Guy Days takes place in and around the town of Nederland. See the schedule on page 24 for all the freeto-watch frosty events that go on, along with three heated tents providing beer, spirited drinks, food & live music ($10 entry for all three tents) on Saturday, Sunday and the Blue Ball on Friday evening ($20 entry). NEW EVENT & TENT LOCATIONS

See the maps on page 28 for event locations. The Coffin Race, Polar Plunge and ReAnimate Yourself Tent locations are new this year.

2016 FESTIVAL HOURS

Friday, March 11: 4 p.m.-midnight (ReAnimate Tent only) Saturday, March 12: 11 a.m.-midnight (all three tents) Sunday, March 13: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. (all three tents)

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Reanimate Yourself Tent: Guercio Park next to reservoir/Teen Center Brain Freezer Tent: Off First Street in downtown Nederland Bacon Bourbon & Brews Tent: Snyder Street between Second and First

DIRECTIONS

From Boulder: Take Hwy. 119 (Canyon Drive) 17 miles West (up) to Nederland. Follow signs to parking and events. From Westbound I-70: Take I-25 North to Hwy. 36 (Boulder Turnpike) and follow it into Boulder. Turn Left on Hwy. 119 (Canyon Drive), continue up Boulder Canyon and follow signs to parking and events. From Eastbound I-70: Take Exit 243 (Central City Pkwy) or Exit 244 (U.S. 6) to Hwy. 119 and turn left (North). Continue through Black Hawk, then Rollinsville and on into Nederland. Follow signs to parking and events. Alternate Routes Alternate routes to Nederland from Denver include Hwy. 6 to Hwy. 93: From Hwy. 93 to Hwy. 119 (Peak to Peak); Hwy. 72 (Coal Creek Canyon); Hwy. 42 (Golden Gate Canyon)

PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION

If you are driving, be sure to follow parking signs and guides and stay out of residential areas. You will be directed where to park once you reach Nederland. Overflow parking can be as far as one mile away, so be prepared. Please be mindful when parking on the street and DO NOT park in front of driveways. Nederland is a very small town so please plan on parking once and not re-parking to keep traffic down. Everything is walkable. DO NOT park where it says “No Parking.”You may be ticketed. Free Shuttle: A free shuttle provided by Bus To Show runs to Nederland from Denver (Champa Street Cheba Hut) and Boulder (Walnut at 9th streets) during the festival. Details and complete schedule can be found online at bustoshow.org. Reservations are required. Be responsible and stay safe at Frozen Dead Guy Days and let bustoshow.org do the driving.

ALCOHOL

Open containers of alcohol are NOT ALLOWED anywhere within town limits. No BYOB. You must be 21 and show proof of age in order to receive a 21+ wristband and purchase tickets for beer and specialty drinks in the tents where alcohol is served. Beer tickets will be sold outside the tent areas; servers will not take cash for beer. You will be asked by Festival Security or local police to dump or dispose of alcohol when it is being consumed in public areas, INCLUDING in the streets and neighborhoods.

WEATHER

It may be sunny and 60 degrees or windy and 30 degrees and it may be both in the same day. Please come prepared for the worst while hoping for the best. Wear comfortable, weather proof shoes and a genuine smile whenever possible.

OOPS, I FORGOT IT! OR I NEED MORE OF IT!

There are several stores in town if you find yourself in need of anything. Visit Mountain Man Outdoor, B&F Mountain Market and Ace Hardware off Hwy. 119 behind the bank for anything you forgot. ATMs are at several locations around town including the Visitor Center and all three festival tents.

ENJOY NEDERLAND O

ur town is a place like no other. Tucked in the Rocky Mountains just west of Boulder, Nederland has a history rich in mining and music and a future as the hub of the Peak to Peak Community. With our unique shops, amazing outdoor beauty, friendly locals, and vibrant music scene, Nederland is definitely not your average small town. Whether you live here, work here, or play here, we’re sure that you’ll discover that life’s better up here. While in town, visit some of our unique restaurants and shops.

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BE RESPONSIBLE & PLAY SAFE

ach year in Colorado, more than 26,000 people are arrested for DUI and over 150 people are killed in alcoholrelated traffic crashes – representing more than one-third of all traffic fatalities in Colorado. Additionally, driving under the influence of any drugs is illegal and just as deadly and dangerous as driving drunk. Keep in mind a person’s blood-alcohol level is the result of a complex interaction of weight, gender, alcohol consumed and time. Any amount of alcohol will impair your ability to drive. If you drive impaired by drugs – even if they’re legal drugs like prescriptions and marijuana – you can be arrested for DUI. Everyone involved with Frozen Dead Guy Days encourages everyone to be responsible and play safe with enjoying our winter celebration. This year, the festival has teamed up with Bus to Show to provide free transportation to and from Denver (Champa Street Cheba Hut) and Boulder (Walnut at 9th streets) during the festival. Bus To Show provides fun, safe and affordable rides to and from: concerts, musical festivals, community events, beer festivals, brewery tours, weddings, birthday parties and more. Bus to Show’s mission is to reduce intoxicated driving to and from high-risk events while simultaneously building a

community among event-goers and raising funds for other causes by organizing and/or providing sober transportation in the form of bus parties. Currently, the non-profit business offers scheduled party buses from Boulder, Denver, and Fort Collins. It also offers private and luxury party bus bookings upon request along the Front Range. Since 2007, Bus to Show has organized transportation for over 10,000 partiers each year and delivered them home safely. Correspondingly, DUIs in Boulder have plummetted by over 30 percent. That’s a total of 836 fewer DUIs over three years, than Boulder was on pace for before Bus to Show. For more information, schedules for Frozen Dead Guy Days and other upcoming Bus to Show events, e-mail contactreservations@bustoshow.org or visit bustoshow.org. Other safe options include RTD’s “N” bus line from Boulder Station to Nederland that links to more than 140 Local, Express and Regional bus routes Page serving 10,000 bus stops and six light rail lines. Call 303-299-6000 or visit www.rtd-denver.com for details. Dial 1-800-829-4222(TAXI-CAB) to be connected to taxi services in more than 50 Colorado cities and towns. If you can get service, use promo code CDOTRideSafe on the Lyft App or at www.lyft.com for a $20 credit on your first ride or use the promo code NODUICO to get $20 off your first ride on the Uber App or at www.uber.com.

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The Story Behind the Festival

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elebrating its 15th year in 2016, Nederland, Colorado’s Frozen Dead Guy Days is known as one of the most unique and quirky festivals in the country and continues to be a world-renowned spectacle. The homegrown frosty fest pays homage to Bredo Morstol, who is frozen in a state of suspended animation and housed in a Tuff Shed on dry ice high above Nederland. Thousands of adventurous, life enthusiasts come annually to participate in Colorado’s “most frigidly fun festival” and view the events along with local, national and international media and entertainment. The event, which was named a Top 10 Best Cultural Festival for 2016 in the country by readers of USA Today among other accolades, also brings a much needed boost to local businesses during a traditionally slow time of year. For more than 25 years, Bredo Morstøl, known as “Grandpa” or “The Frozen Dead Guy,” has taken up residence in a Tuff Shed where he remains in a state of “suspended animation” above the mountain town of Nederland. Grandpa is frozen at a steady negative 60 degrees Fahrenheit and is awaiting the science necessary to bring him back. The festival began in 2002 with the local Chamber of Commerce and was organized in under six weeks. Board members considered creating an event around the phenomenon that made Nederland different than any other place—the frozen dead guy. With events like coffin races, costume polar plunging, ice turkey bowling, frozen T-shirt contests, a parade of hearses, a poetry slam, frozen salmon toss, the “irreverent and more than a little macabre” event has been popular ever since that first year. Continued on page 12

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12 The story of how Bredo ended up frozen in a Tuff Shed in Nederland is a bit strange. It starts in Norway, moves on to California and continues in Colorado. It involves cryonics, deportation, ice delivery, psychics and celebrations. The tale captured international attention and sparked the popular annual event known as Frozen Dead Guy Days. LIFE AFTER DEATH Morstøl lived his entire life in Norway, where he enjoyed a comfortable existence as Director of Parks and Recreation in Baerum County for more than 30 years. He loved painting, fishing, skiing, and hiking in the mountains of his homeland. It’s after he died from a heart condition while cross-country skiing in 1989 that things began to get interesting. His daughter Aud Morstøl and her son Trygve Bauge, who was a strong advocate for cryonics— low-temperature preservation of humans who can’t be sustained by medicine, with the hope that healing and resuscitation may be possible in the future—packed Bredo in dry ice, prepared the body for international travel and shipped him to the Trans Time Cryonics Facility in Oakland, Calif. Bredo’s body was placed in liquid nitrogen for almost four years while . Trygve searched for a proper place to keep his Grandfather. Trygve had come to the United States almost a decade earlier to escape nuclear war. The long-haired and bearded

Norweigian was filled with several interesting ideas and liked to poke fun at authority when possible. In 1993, Aud came to the U.S. to help her son build his dream home. The home, which ended up being located in a subdivision of Nederland, was to be earthquake-, bomb-, fire-, windand flood-proof. Aud and Trygve moved Bredo and another unrelated man from Chicago to Nederland and put them on dry-ice in a shed behind the home he was building and they were living in. During this time, Trygve became well known in the area for his theories on prolonging life by bathing in ice and founding the Boulder Polar Club, whose members still jump in Boulder Reservoir on New Year’s Day annually. He even set a world record for sitting in ice water for over an hour. He was also arrested at Denver’s Stapleton Airport after joking he was going to hijack a plane. GRANDFATHER CLAUSE After letting his visa run out and refusing to renew it, Trygve was eventually deported back to Norway in 1994. He qualified for amnesty, but refused to file the paperwork on principal. Aud

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was suddenly left alone in an unfinished house and the responsibility to care for her father’s frozen body. It wasn’t long before Aud got an eviction notice from the town for living in a house with no electricity or plumbing. Desperate, she approached a Nederland Mountain-Ear newspaper reporter in search of help, afraid her father’s body may thaw if she is kicked out. This alerted the town’s clerk, mayor and police officers, who quickly went to the scene of what was basically a dead body. In less than a day, the news became an international story. Aud was quickly told she couldn’t keep dead bodies on her property at an emergency town meeting. When it was discovered there was no law against the practice, an emergency ordinance was passed making it a “nuisance” to keep “whole or any part of the person, body or carcass of a human being or animal or other biological species which is not alive” on private property. Because the bodies at Aud’s house were already in place at the time the law was passed, they were “grandfathered” in and allowed to stay. The Chicago man, however, was returned to family once they discovered his body was in Nederland following news reports about the incident. “Grandpa” Bredo remains to this day, even after Aud was eventually deported.

While on the job, Shaffer evenassisted psychics who have wanted to converse with Bredo.

THE ‘ICE MAN’ Now that Bredo was alone in his shed and no one to care for him, Aud and Trygve posted an ad on the internet in 1995 for a one-of-a-kind job. Bo Shaffer of Delta Tech noticed the ad, applied and got the job. Shaffer came to be known as the “Ice Man” since twice a month, Shaffer delivered 1,600 pounds of dry ice and packed it around Grandpa in his Tuff Shed tomb, surrounded by foam padding, a tarp, and blankets. For 18 years, Shaffer kept Grandpa between -60 and -100 degrees Fahrenheit, kept records and gave tours to investigators, inquisitive filmmakers and sightseers. He went on to write a book, Colorado’s Ice Man and the Story of the Frozen Dead Guy, where he explains the body is cold, but probably not as cold as it should be. He said the body was plus 14 degrees the first day he arrived at the Tuff Shed. Shaffer was motived to do a good job for his client and took care of Bredo, the property, bills, record keeping and more. He explains in his book that he continued to do the job because everyone Continued on page 16

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had invested so much time into the project “it would be a shame to make a little screw up and have it all be for nothing.” While on the job, Shaffer even assisted psychics who have wanted to converse with Bredo. One account claims “Grandpa” is amused by the fuss and doing fine, but another more recent visit revealed he is quiet and perhaps has moved on. Shaffer eventually gave up the job in 2012 after a dispute with Trygve, although the “Ice Man” can still be seen at the yearly Frozen Dead Guy Days. NEW CARETAKERS In October 2012, news spread that the unique job was again available. Jane Curtis Gazit of Keep Magnolia Clean was hired to take care of “Grandpa.” As of 2014, ice delivery is being handled by Brad Wickham, who recently retreated to Nederland to get away from the stress of his 20+ year career in healthcare. Now semiretired, he makes extra cash by taking care of Bredo. He is paid by the family to be a local caretaker for the

Colorado’s ’most fridigly fun festival’ features outrageous events. property, plowing the driveway and making sure the house and shed are left undisturbed. He also takes phone calls from reporters and answers questions. IT’S A DEAD MAN’S PARTY By 2002, Nederland’s residents had embraced the town’s fame as the place with the “Frozen Dead Guy” and its Chamber of Commerce decided to use the notoriety to their advantage. The group ultimately created the foundation for what Frozen Dead Guy Days is today. Read more about the how the first festival came together on page 26. Colorado’s “most frigidly fun festival” features outrageous events like the coffin races, costumed polar plunge, ice turkey bowling, frozen T-shirt contest, brain freeze contest, human foosball, a parade of hearses and frozen salmon toss. It all takes place amid a three-day music showcase featuring some of Colorado’s most talented acts in an “eccentric cross between Continued on page 18

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morbid and hilarious that permeates the weekend’s atmosphere.” Nederland thrives on the colorful, the offbeat, and the weird. Frozen Dead Guy Days, coined “Cryonics’ first Mardi Gras” by Trygve, is a fitting way to end the short days of winter and head into the melting snows of spring. Frozen Dead Guy Days brings a new burst of life with creative contests like the Frozen T-shirt and Brain Freeze and events including coffin races, a polar plunge and a frozen salmon toss. Each March, people travel from around the world to experience Grandpa’s legacy. OVER 25 YEARS ON ICE This year marks Grandpa’s 27th year on ice and the festival’s 15th year in celebration of this unique situation. Frozen Dead Guy Days has received media coverage locally and worldwide. It was named by the Chicago Tribune as one the country’s “Top 100 Festivals Not to be Missed.” Video footage of Frozen Dead Guy Days has graced the networks on many broadcasts including Bill Geist’s segment on “The CBS Sunday Morning Show,” CNN, ABC News, “Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” PBS, the Game Show Network and a Belgian reality show. In 2014, a Japanese variety show filmed an episode during the event. This year, it was named by readers of USA Today as the 5th Best Cultural Festival in the country. The festival has also been “immortalized” by two award-winning documentaries, Grandpa’s In The Tuff Shed and the follow-up, Grandpa’s Still In The Tuff Shed by the Beeck sisters, and in Shaffer’s book. The event also won the Colorado Governor’s Award for “best promotional event” in 2010 and was featured in the New York Times. In addition to more than a decade of coverage around the world (including TV shows from Belgium, Canada and Russia), Frozen Dead Guy Days was named one of the “Top 5” winter festivals in the country by Readers Digest, has graced the pages of magazines and papers worldwide and made the “Top 10” list of Lonely Planet and Hotels.com’s “Must-Sees In 2012.” CNN has the event listed as one of the best costumed festivals in the country and the story of Grandpa Bredo was featured on the Travel Channel’s Monumental Mysteries.

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ReAnimate Yourself Tent (Guercio Field) Friday, March 11th • 4 p.m.-midnight • $20

he ReAnimate Yourself Tent, in its new location at Guercio Field, hosts the annual Blue Ball on Friday, March 11 featuring an evening of dancing, live music, spirits and celebration. The ticketed event features craft beer, a distilled spirits bar, the famous Ice Queen and Grandpa Look-alike Contest, Grandpa’s Gift Shop, delicious food vendors and more.

COSTUME CONTEST Walk the Blue Ball Carpet in your finest frozen attire to compete for a “Bredo” award and the title of Ice Queen or Grandpa Lookalike. The contest begins at 8 p.m. Prizes include Selk’bag Sleepwear SysPage tems, the ultimate sleeping bag you can boogie down in, from Nederland’s Mountain Man Outdoor Store. 20 The contest is also a lot of fun for spectators. Be sure to cheer for your favorite costumed frostifarian!

SILENT DISCO

ARTIST

10:30-Midnight

Award-winning artist Sean Wells is a fifth generation Spanish Colonial artisan and promotes education of regional art and imagery through her traditional, contemporary and body-art paintings. Her artwork is featured on a Day of the Dead themed beer (Cerveza de los Muertos), wine label (La Catrina Vino) and a series of New Mexico Lottery scratcher tickets. This is her first trip to Frozen Dead Guy Days and she looks forward to celebrating with Nederland!

LIVE MUSIC

5-6 p.m.: Funky Tonk Heroes

Silent Disco (also known as “quiet” or “silent listening” parties) is a unique, social music experience whereby the sound is transmitted through wireless headphones to each guest—only those with headphones can hear what’s being played. The headsets have multiple channels that light up different colors, so participants can see what everyone else is listening to. If you’ve never been to one before, you do not want to miss out on a wildly fun time!

6:30-8 p.m.: Widow’s Bane

8:30-10 p.m.: Euforquestra

Colorado’s Funky Tonk Heroes play Boulder’s The Widow’s Bane plays a Eufórquestra is energy and rhythm perdance music that transforms a typical mix of sounds it calls “zombie-death- sonified. Its sound has been influenced gathering into an allpolka” which incorby music from all over night funky country porates elements the world with an emhoedown with its of roots revival, sea phasis on funk, pocket unique, hard-driving, shanties, klezmer, and groove. Its sound funky country sound, vaudeville, Gothic blends the roots of powerful vocals and rock, murder ballads funk, soul, afrobeat, pocket rhythms. and more. reggae and dub.

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BACON, BOURBON & BREWS Saturday & Sunday, March 12-13 • 11 a.m.-10 p.m. • $10 (includes all music tents)

ew to FDGD this year! The Bacon Bourbon & Brews Tent, featuring craft breweries, local distilleries, bacon vendors and live music, will be open on Saturday and Sunday. Located on Snyder Street between First and Second streets behind the Brain Freeze Tent (see map on page 29).

BACON The back and sides of the hog, salted, and dried or smoked, sliced thin and fried are an undeniable passion for many. Try numerous ways to enjoy this crispy treat from Berkwood Farms in Des Moines, Iowa. Its a farmerowned co-op that distributes quality Berkshire pork—the oldest breed of pork in existence today.

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BREWS Enjoy a variety of craft brews from several Colorado breweries including Big Choice Brewing in Broomfield, Fate Brewing and Sanitas Brewing in Boulder, Lumpy Ridge Brewing in Estes Park, Vail Brewing in Avon and Großen Bart Brewery in Longmont.

LIVE MUSIC SATURDAY, MARCH 12

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Chain Station 1-2:30 p.m. Bottom Dollar String Band 3-4:30 p.m. Strange Americans 5-6:30 p.m. Luna Sol 7-8:30 p.m. Intuit SUNDAY, MARCH 13

BOURBON Taste bourbon and other spirits from local and nationally-distributed distilleries including Dr. McGillicuddy’s liqueurs and whiskey with natural flavors, as well as Colorado High Hemp Vodka— the first vodka in the U.S. fermented and distilled with Real Hemp.

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Lady & The Gentlemen 1:30-3 p.m. Kronen 3:30-5 p.m. Dragondeer 5:30-7 p.m. Gasoline Lollipops

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EVENTS, SCHEDULES & MUSIC Everything you need to know to have a complete festival experience.

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FROZEN EVENTS

All event participants MUST sign a waiver and be wearing a proofof-waiver wrist band. Sign waiver and get wrist band at the Teen Center (151 East St.) from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, or at the event.

Frozen Dead Guy Days is even more fun when taking part in the events!

Saturday, March 12

Parade of Hearses & Coffin Race Teams

Costume Polar Plunge

The annual Parade of Hearses and procession of coffin race teams, sponsors and non-profits begins at the Nederland Teen Center and proceeds up First Street to the west. Spectators may line-up along First Street to view the spectacle and cheer on their favorite race teams. Parade participants must check-in and line-up at the Teen Center.

PORTION OF PROCEEDS GO TO NEDERLAND FOOD PANTRY

Saturday, March 12 First Street • Noon • Entry fee: free

Saturday, March 12 Guercio Field • 1-2 p.m. • Entry fee: $20

Those craving the “full frozen experience” can walk the plank of the Blue Pearl on her inaugural voyage and jump into the cold water below. A warming tent is provided. No running, no diving and no nudity, please. Costumes aargggghhhh encouraged.

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All event participants MUST sign a waiver and be wearing a proofof-waiver wrist band. Sign waiver and get wrist band at the Teen Center (151 East St.) from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, or at the event.

Saturday, March 12 X8 Coffin Racing Saturday, March 12 Guercio Field • 2-3:30 p.m.

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Entry fee: $75 per team The object of the Coffin Race is to slide, roll, drag or carry a coffin through an obstacle course to the finish. Six pallbearers (team members) carry the coffin with a rider inside through the obstacle course. Finish times will be determined when the last team member has crossed the finish line. The top four teams race in the quarter finals with the top two racing for first and second place. First place takes home $300, second place gets $200 and third place wins $100. A special award is presented for best FDGD spirit. Complete rules/registration: www.frozendeadguydays.org

Sunday, March 13

Don’t Forget to Spring Ahead!

Frozen Salmon Toss

Ice Carving

Entry fee: $5 Created by Sundance Café owner Hillary Stevenson and modeled after Seattle Fish Market. Frozen salmon are provided and contestants throw them for distance. • Farthest flung fish wins the prize • Come by anytime during event; participate early before the salmon “swims upstream”

Entry fee: free Watch talented stone and wood artists carve original sculptures from large blocks of ice.

Sunday, March 13 • 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sundance Café (23942 Hwy. 119)

Snowy Human Foosball Sunday, March 13 • 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Guercio Field (East End of First Street)

Entry fee: $30/team It’s just like foosball, but with real people... in the snow. • Speed tournament, first come, first serve • Spectacular prizes • Proceeds benefit Torin Perret

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Sunday, March 13 1-3 p.m. Guercio Field (East End of First Street)

Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating

Sunday, March 13 • 3 p.m. Stage Stop (Rollinsville)

Entry fee: $7 Race to eat as many Rocky Mountain oysters as possible.

Saturday, March 12 & Sunday, March 13

Brain Freeze Contest

Saturday, March 12 • 3-4 p.m. Sunday, March 13 • 2-3 p.m. In front of the Brain Freeze Tent on First Street

Entry fee: $5 Participants go head-to-head downing frozen drinks in a race for fun prizes. The first to finish wins. • All the frozen beverage must end up in the participant’s mouth to win • Hands to yourself and you must remain seated during contest

Icy Turkey Bowling

Saturday, March 12 • 3-5 p.m. Sunday, March 13 • 1-3 p.m. In front of the Brain Freeze Tent on First Street

Entry fee: $5 Pins are the target, fowl the ball… more specifically a frozen turkey. Each bowler gets three rolls to knock down as many pins as possible - high score is 18. • Icy Turkey can be rolled, thrown, heaved, tossed or flung past the pins as long as the Page bowler is behind the throw line when the bird leaves his/her hand

Pioneer Inn Frozen T-Shirt Contest Saturday, March 12 • 1 p.m., 5 p.m. Sunday, March 13 at 1 p.m. Pioneer Inn (15 E. First Street)

Entry fee: $10 Sign up to slip into something frozen at the Pioneer Inn located on First Street in Nederland. Contestants race to don frozen t-shirts, using only the ground and their bodies. The solidly frozen and folded T-shirts can prove to be quite worthy opponents. • Cash prizes for male and female winners

Cosmic Comedy Bus

Grandpa’s Mall Crawl

(Snyder Street between First & Second streets)

Entry fee: free Nederland’s First Street will be transformed into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy music in the Brain Freezer and Bacon, Bourbon & Brews tents, street performers and participate in brain freeze and frozen T-shirt contests, icy turkey bowling, poetry readings and more.

Saturday, March 12 • 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday, March 13 • 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Downtown Nederland (First Street east of Visitor Center/Hwy. 119)

Saturday, March 12 • 3-5 p.m. Sunday, March 13 • 1-3 p.m. Outside Bacon, Bourbon & Brews Tent Entry fee: free Stop in to enjoy 90 minutes of features and open mic or come chill in the bus anytime!

FDGD Pancake Breakfast

Frozen Dead Poets Society

Viewings of “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” Documentary

(.5 mi north on Hwy. 72 or take walking path from Jefferson St.) Entry fee: $8 adults, $5 seniors, $4 under 12 All-you-can-eat pancakes plus eggs, sausage, coffee and juice. Warm up with a big meal before spending the day outdoors. Sponsored by and supporting the Nederland Area Seniors.

(In Front of the Brain Freeze Tent on First St.) Entry fee: free Saturday, bring poems or odes to Grandpa for open readings. Sunday, Love Shovel Ranch presents Dead Poetry Slam with poets portraying historical figures in a competitive context. Be a judge!

Saturday, March 12 • 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, March 13 • 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Black Forest Restaurant (4 Big Springs Dr.)

Saturday, March 12 • 8-11 a.m. Sunday, March 13 • 8-11 a.m. Nederland Community Center

Saturday, March 12 • 5-6 p.m. Sunday, March 13 • 3-4 p.m. First Street Soap Box

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Entry fee: free Watch the award-winning Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed short film made by Kathy and Robin Beeck. Shows approximately every 30 minutes.

FROZEN SCHEDULE

$10 Entry Fee For All 3 Music Tents

Event Viewing Free!

Friday, March 11

4 p.m.-Midnight THE BLUE BALL

ReAnimate Yourself Tent in Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • A night of frozen pageantry on the Blue Carpet featur-

ing live music by Eufórquestra, Widow’s Bane and Funky Tony Heroes • PBR and Upslope on tap along with drinks with Finlandia Vodka • Ice Queen and Grandpa Look-Alike contest at 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 12 8-11 a.m. FDGD PANCAKE BREAKFAST

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Community Center (.5 mi north on Hwy. 72 or take walking path from Jefferson St.) • Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice and all you can eat pancakes! Warm your belly for a day outdoors! • $8 Adult, $5 Senior, $4 Under 12 Sponsored by and supporting Nederland Area Seniors

9-11 a.m. REGISTRATION & WRISTBAND PICK-UP Teen Center, 151 East First St. (East end of First Street) • Register for the Polar Plunge & Coffin Races & Parade Contest • Waiver pick-up for ALL FDGD events (waivers on site for smaller events) • All event participants must sign a waiver and get waiver wristband.

10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. OPEN HOUSE WITH TURKEY VULTURES, SPIDERS, SCORPIONS & COCKROACHES

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11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. REANIMATE YOURSELF TENT

Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • PBR/Upslope Beer on tap with Spirited Drinks from Finlandia’s Ice Bar • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors

11 a.m.-4 p.m. VIEWING OF “GRANDPA’S IN THE TUFF SHED” DOCUMENTARY

Noon PARADE OF COFFIN RACERS & HEARSES

3-4 p.m. J BRAIN FREEZE CONTEST

Parade starts at the Nederland Teen Center and proceeds up First Street to the west • Parade Participants check in and line up at the Teen Center.

11 a.m.-8:30 p.m. BRAIN FREEZE TENT

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Downtown Nederland (on First Street east of the Visitor Center/Hwy. 119) • Nederland’s First Street will be transformed into a pedestrian mall so revelers can enjoy music in the Brain Freezer and Bacon, Bourbon & Brews tents, street performers and participate in brain freezing, frozen T-shirt contests, icy turkey bowling and more.

3-5 p.m. J ICY TURKEY BOWLING

Black Forest Restaurant • Watch the award-winning “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” short film; shows approx. every 30 minutes

1 p.m. THE NEWLY DEAD GAME

11 am – 8 pm GRANDPA’S MALL CRAWL

Located next to the Bacon, Bourbon & Brews Tent • 90 minutes of Features & open mic • Or come chill anytime!

First Street across from Brain Freeze Tent • Test your poultry bowling skills in the Icy Turkey Bowling Contest…you’re welcome to BYOFF (bring your own frozen fowl) • $5 entry fee; register at the event

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (20 Lakeview Dr. in the Caribou Shopping Center) • Open house with the Turkey Vultures from the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program (3:30 p.m.) and Spiders, Scorpions and Cockroaches.

First Street • PBR/Upslope Beer on tap with Spirited Drinks from Finlandia • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors

3-5 p.m. COSMIC COMEDY BUS

Black Forest Restaurant (24 Big Springs Dr.) • Test your knowledge of your partner’s “death wishes”

Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • E ntry Fee: $20 (online registration ends on March 11 at 10 p.m.) • Walk the Plank of the Blue Pearl

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Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • Teams race with a coffin and ‘corpse’ in tow through a course full of obstacles, mud, snow, other racers. • CASH PRIZE for best costumed team, trophies and lots of goodies for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners • Advanced registration required

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In front of the Brain Freeze Tent on First Street • Contestants race against each other downing Frozen Slushies for fabulous prizes. $5 entry fee; register at the event

3 p.m. & 5 p.m. J PIONEER INN’S FROZEN T-SHIRT CONTEST

On First Street in front of the Pioneer Inn • Try and slip into something Frozen… faster than everyone else • $10 entry fee; register at the event

5 p.m. THE NEWLY DEAD GAME

Black Forest Restaurant (24 Big Springs Dr.) • Test your knowledge of your partner’s “death wishes”

5-6 p.m. FROZEN DEAD POET SOCIETY OPEN READINGS

On a soap box on First Street across from the Brain Freeze Tent • Bring your poems, musings and odes to Grandpa

Sunday, March 13 8-11 a.m. FDGD PANCAKE BREAKFAST

10 a.m.-4 p.m. OPEN HOUSE WITH RAPTORS, SNAKES, COCKROCHES AND MORE

Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center (20 Lakeview Dr. in the Caribou Shopping Center) • Open house with raptors, snakes, cockroaches and more. Learn about the planet’s most mysterious animals with Nature’s Educators (11 a.m. and 2 p.m.)

11 a.m.-2 p.m. J SALMON TOSS & SUNDAY BRUNCH

Sundance Cafe, 1 mile south of Nederland on Hwy. 119 • Farthest flung fish wins the prize/$5 entry fee

11 am – 6 p.m. GRANDPA’S MALL CRAWL

11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. BRAIN FREEZE TENT

First Street • PBR/Upslope Beer on tap with Spirited Drinks from Finlandia • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors

Don’t Forget to Spring Ahead! 11 a.m.-6:30 p.m. REANIMATE YOURSELF TENT

Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • PBR/Upslope Beer on tap with Spirited Drinks from Finlandia’s Ice Bar • Live Music (see music schedule) • Grandpa’s Gift Shop and food vendors

11 a.m.-3 p.m. SNOWY HUMAN FOOSBALL

Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • It’s like Foosball with real people • Spectacular Prizes • $30 per team donated to Nederland Teen Center

11 a.m.-4 p.m. VIEWING OF “GRANDPA’S IN THE TUFF SHED” DOCUMENTARY

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PIONEER INN’S FROZEN T-SHIRT CONTEST On First Street in front of the Pioneer Inn • Try and slip into something Frozen faster than everyone else • $10 entry fee; register at the event

1 p.m. THE NEWLY DEAD GAME

Black Forest Restaurant (24 Big Springs Dr.) • Test your knowledge of your partner’s “death wishes”

1 – 1:30 p.m. MUSTACHE AND BEARD CONTEST

On First Street across from the Brain Freeze Tent • Come strut your frosty, facial flare for the second annual Beard and Mustache contest • Prizes for 1st & 2nd Place for both “Best Mustache” and “Best Beard”

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1-3 p.m. ICE CARVING

Guercio Field (East end of First Street) • Ice carving demonstration

1-3 p.m. J ICY TURKEY BOWLING

On First Street across from the Brain Freeze Tent • Test your poultry bowling skills • BYOFF (bring your own frozen fowl) encouraged • $5 entry fee; register at the event • Used carcasses donated to Ed’s dog

1-3 p.m. COSMIC COMEDY BUS

Located next to the Bacon, Bourbon & Brews Tent • 90 minutes of features and open mic • Come chill anytime

2-3 p.m. J BRAIN FREEZE CONTEST

In front of the Brain Freeze Tent on First Street • Contestants race against each other downing Frozen Slushies for fabulous prizes. • $5 entry fee; register at the event

2:30-4 p.m. J ROCKY MOUNTAIN OYSTER EATING CONTEST

Stage Stop (Main Street, Rollinsville) • Contestants race to eat the most “oysters” • $7 entry fee • Register at the event

3-4 p.m. FROZEN DEAD POET SOCIETY OPEN READINGS

Soap box on First Street across from Brain Freeze Tent • Bring your poems, musings and odes to Grandpa

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MUSIC SHOWCASE

rozen Dead Guy Days isn’t just an off the wall festival, it also features a three-day music showcase of Colorado’s deep and diverse talent. The festival’s three music tents offer a whole lot of something for everyone! A special shout out goes to Bruce Lish for developing the music program over the last five years and Kallista Alli for knocking it out of the park this year with her heartfelt passion for the bands and tenacious work ethic. (She helped organize the whole fest, too!)

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(Guercio Field - East End of First Street)

Bacon, Bourbon & Brews

(Snyder St. between First & Second streets)

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MINDBENDER

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. JC & THE DEADLY SINS

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CHAIN STATION

1-2:30 p.m. TNERTLE

1-2:30 p.m. NEW FAMILY DOG

1-2:30 p.m. BOTTOM DOLLAR STRING BAND

Mindbender takes audiences on a “long strange trip” back to the early bluegrass and country influences of the Grateful Dead’s Working Page Man’s Dead and American Beauty era.

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TNERTLE formed to create original music and have fun. The duo, which often includes a horn section and special guests, plays electro, hip-hop, reggae, funk and “lots of in betweens.”

JC and the Deadly Sins plays eclectic electric rock with songs to make you think and dance. The Boulder Countybased act features the original music of Josh Elioseff and Jim Mullett.

Nederland’s New Family Dog, guitarist Jon “Blackdog” Ridnell’s latest musical creation, is aimed at getting back to his funk and jazz roots and features his son Miles on bass and vocals.

Colorado’s Chain Station is a four-piece, high-energy string band known for catchy and lyrically-poignant original songs. Its music is steeped in Americana roots and the vocal harmonies are high, lonesome, and tight.

Austin’s Bottom Dollar String Band is cutting a new path in contemporary bluegrass music and earning a reputation for fusing old-time instrumentals with contemporary bluegrass.

3-4:30 p.m. IN THE WHALE

3-4:30 p.m. ROGUE SOUND

3-4:30 p.m. STRANGE AMERICANS

5-6:30 p.m. THE DRUNKEN HEARTS

5-6:30 p.m. THE LAST REVEL

5-6:30 p.m. LUNA SOL

7-8:30 p.m. DEAD FLOYD

7-8:30 p.m. APEX VIBE

7-8:30 p.m. INTUIT

Denver’s In the Whale is a high energy, two-piece rock band. Nate Valdez on vocals and guitar and Eric Riley on drums have been making “no nonsense, balls-to-thewall rock songs” since 2011.

The Drunken Hearts’ rockin’ alternative Americana is a “tempestuous, yet smoky flavor of music” infusing spirited vocals with electric and acoustic guitars, fiddle, bass, lap steel and drums.

A celebration of two of rock’s greatest acts, the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd, mashed together into a high-energy, unpredictable show. Performances include early rarities and modern classics.

Rogue Sound features a powerful line-up and original mix of hip-hop, reggae, funk and fusion. It strives to cross cultures and genres with an easy-going vibe and positive party atmosphere.

Minneapolis’ The Last Revel blends folk-minded, threepart harmonies with honest and meaningful lyrics to deliver a passionate and soulstirring performance known for being somewhat rowdy.

The five members of Apex Vibe, known for their electric dub-reggae-meets rock performances, come together to create positive music and spread a message of love, revolution and unity.

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Denver’s Strange Americans is all about straight-forward, no frills rock n’ roll. Members Matt Hoffman, Trent Nelson, Murry Mercier, Trevor Sinnard and Michael McKee pack a passionate, reverb-drenched punch.

Denver’s Luna Sol is a highmountain stoner rock band, fronted by veteran singer and lead guitarist David Angstrom and featuring music that is dark, heavy, and filled with hooks.

Intuit formed in Boulder on the campus of Naropa University. With a rich improvisational component and roots in reggae, funk, jazz, blues, hip-hop, folk and world music, the act has developed a sound all its own.

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ReAnimate Yourself Tent

BrainFreezer Tent

(Guercio Field - East End of First Street)

11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. COLD RIVER CITY

Cold River City is six individuals with a passion for live music and an appreciation for a wide range of music. Its members continue to develop an intellectual and danceable style that defies classification.

1:30-3 p.m. VERY SPECIAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED

Stay tuned for another talented band to be added to the Frozen Dead Guy Days Music Showcase line-up.

(First Street in downtown Nederland)

Bacon, Bourbon & Brews

(Snyder St. between First & Second streets)

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. BRUCE LISH & GEORGE STONE

11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. LADY & THE GENTLEMEN

George Stone on keys and Bruce Lish on tenor and soprano saxophones play the music of Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane and others.

Featuring violin, horns, powerhouse vocals, and some of the most talented jam-band musicians in Boulder, the act is able to sweep across genres with ease while maintaining its unique style.

1-2:30 p.m. BANSHEE TREE

1-2:30 p.m. KRONEN

Banshee Tree is a swing, blues and experimental act that recently relocated to the Boulder mountains from upstate New York attracted by the local street and folk music scene.

Boulder’s Kronen integrates rhythmic and harmonic elements from European, African, Caribbean, and American music into its live electronic rock.

3:30-5 p.m. THE SAMPLES

3-4:30 p.m. POWERLUNG RANGERS

3-4:30 p.m. DRAGONDEER

5:30-7 p.m. DEADPHISH ORCHESTRA

5-6:30 p.m. GIPSY MOON

5-6:30 p.m. GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS

More than 25 years after founding The Samples, Sean Kelly continues to delight fans with reggae-influenced rock and pop that transcends genres, age and shatters the rules of the music industry.

The DeadPhish Orchestra is a quartet of Colorado musicians faced with the unique challenge of merging the two differing styles of The Grateful Dead and Phish.

Nederland’s Jon “Blacklung” Ridnell, Otis “Mugsy Puffncuffs” Lande, Matt “Sir Smokes Alot” Smart, Sean “The Foil” Foley and Heather “Queen Slutiva” Taylor throw down hip hop, funk and jazz.

With soothing harmonies, and soul-stirring poetry, Nederland’s Gipsy Moon is constantly reinventing its indiefolk sound to include Celtic melodies, Latin rhythms, bluegrass and gipsy swing.

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Denver’s dynamic Dragondeer is a swampy blues, psychedelic-folk act with a reverbdrenched take on old-school blues coupled with inspired improvisation that is both cosmic and grooving.

Boulder’s Gasoline Lollipops is an alt-country band combining the sincerity of dirt-floor folk with the rebelliousness of punk. It’s an all-new incarnation of alt-country that is both high energy and heartfelt.

• Pine Dwellers – Wild Mtn, 6pm • Na’an Stop, Flash Mountain Flood – Black Forest, 6pm • Los Cheesies – Very Nice, 6pm • Psychodillo – Stage Stop, 9pm

• Global Soul – Pioneer Inn, 10pm SUNDAY, MARCH 13 • CBDs – Kathmandu, 7pm • Torbin Hadlock – Very Nice, 6pm • Flash Mtn. Flood – Very Nice, 4pm • Malai Llama – Stage Stop, 9:30pm • Big Thompson Flood – Stage Stop, 1pm SATURDAY, MARCH 12 A free shuttle from Nederland to the Stage Stop • ONDA – Pioneer Inn, 10pm will be running all weekend Frozen Dead Guy Days 2016

The Colorado Community Radio Network will broadcast live interviews with bands and organizers throughout Frozen Dead Guy Days from the TUFF Shed on First Street. DJs from member stations KNED 93.1 FM/102.9 FM, KGLR Greenlight Radio in Boulder 95.5 FM and Way High Radio 90.5 FM in Ward. It will be broadcast on all member stations including Boulder Free Radio 95.3 FM.

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Cryoni cs: The Co ld Facts By Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death® ant to know the strange but true story of how Bredo Morstoel came to be the celebrated Frozen Dead Guy? Stop by the Black Forest Restaurant during Frozen Dead Guy Days, come out of the cold, and watch the documentary “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed” to get all the freezing fun facts. The 25-minute film is being shown continuously from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, along with humorous film clips about cryonics. Is Grandpa Bredo’s celebrated on-ice existence in Nederland really sufficient to support an eventual revival? Here are some cold facts about cryonic preservation.

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WHAT IS CRYONICS? The concept of cryonics was introduced in 1962 by Robert Ettinger in his landmark book, The Prospect of Immortality. Ettinger, considered “The Father of Cryonics,” founded the Cryonics Institute in 1976. Their first patient, Robert’s mother Rhea Ettinger, was preserved in 1977. Robert joined the more than 100 patients in cryostasis at the Institute’s facility in Clinton Township, Michigan in 2011. According to the Cryonics Institute, “Cryonics is a technique intended to hopefully save lives and greatly extend lifespan. It involves cooling

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legally-dead people to liquid nitrogen temperature where physical decay essentially stops, in the hope that future scientific procedures will someday revive them and restore them to youth and good health. A person held in such a state is said to be a ‘cryopreserved patient,’ because we do not regard the cryopreserved person as being inevitably ‘dead’.” A BODY MUST BE CHILLED RIGHT AFTER DEATH To have a chance at revival, the body must be cooled down quickly right after expiring. After Grandpa Bredo died from a heart condition in Norway in 1989, his grandson Trygve A surgeon performs initial procehad the body flown dures to prepare a body (top) and to California for cry- liquid nitrogen is used to store a onic treatment. neuropatient at a cryonics facility. trans-At His lantic transportation probably took at least a day after Grandpa’s death. Even when packed in dry ice, this time lapse does not bode well for maintaining the vital organs for later revival.

CRYONIC PRESERVATION IS REALLY, REALLY COLD. Grandpa’s body was first put into a cryonic deep freeze at Trans Time, a cryonic facility based in San Leandro, CA, in the San Francisco Bay area. He was immersed in liquid nitrogen at a temperature of approximately -196˚C/-321˚F and kept that way for almost four years. His dry ice deep freeze in the Tuff Shed hovers in the range of -61˚F. As you’ll see in “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed,” he also had a close call with an episode of melting. This also does not bode well for Grandpa’s eventual Page reanimation. IT’S REALLY VITRIFICATION, NOT FREEZING. According to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which cryopreserved their first patient in 1967, “Adding high concentrations of chemicals called cryoprotectants

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Cryoni cs: The Co ld Facts to cells permits tissue to be cooled to very low temperatures with little or no ice formation. The state of no ice formation at temperatures below -120°C is called vitrification. It is now possible to physically vitrify organs as large as the human brain, achieving excellent structural preservation without freezing.” Some cryonic outfits offer neurocryopreservation, which involves removing and preserving only the head of a person declared legally dead. The theory is that only the information contained in the brain is of any importance, and that a new body could be cloned or regenerated at some point in the future. Given the way Bredo died and Page his condition durTrygve Morstoel and the ing shipment to Tuff Shed that contains the U.S., this did his grandfather’s body. not happen and his brain could be mush. Again, this does not bode well for later reanimation – but hope springs eternal. Bredo’s family sends money from Norway every month to keep the dry ice in the Tuff Shed replenished and Trygve’s cryonic life extension dreams alive.

IS CRYONICS ETHICAL? According to a 1995 paper by philosopher Charles Tandy, PhD, cryonics is ethical. He writes, “The assumption of the cryonicist is that future biomedicine may be more advanced (better able to reverse damage) than present biomedicine − and that cryonic hibernation may serve as a kind of ‘time machine’ to transport one to such a future. Thus, cryonic hibernation may be viewed as a radically conservative biomedical procedure − as compared to the alternative (e.g., burial or cremation).” According to Tandy, there are four considerations, “when making an ethical biomedical decision. These four factors are: 1) respect for autonomy; 2) nonmaleficence; 3) beneficence; and, 4) justice. If the patient was competent and freely chose to undergo the biomedical procedure of cryonic hibernation, then the bioethical factor, respect for autonomy, produces a prima facie obligation for cryonic hibernation (and against burial or cremation) of the cryonics patient.” Continued on page 38

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Bredo’s grandson Trygve believes in cryonic hibernation and reanimation. We don’t really know if Grandpa wanted to be a poster child for the temporarily dead. Ethically, this situation is a bit dicey. Bredo may not have wanted to be reanimated. The conditions of Grandpa Bredo’s long Nederland nap probably won’t foster a successful reanimation. But in the meantime, we celebrate his life on a grander scale as the Frozen Dead Guy than he would have received had he been buried or cremated in Norway. Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, is creator of The Newly-Dead Game and author of A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die and Hail and Farewell: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips. Download a free planning form and eBook about cremation ceremonies at www.AGoodGoodbye.com.

Would you want to be cryonically preserved? Does your significant other know? Sign up to play…

The Newly-Dead Game® to test how well you know your partner’s last wishes in competition with three other couples. Win fun prizes and Internet fame with host Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death! Games are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday at the Black Forest Restaurant. Sign up in advance – slots go fast!

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By Barbara Lawlor One never knows what twists and turns the journey of life will throw in one’s way. Just when it seems like the path ahead is a straight line towards an imagined destination, a series of washboard bumps could skew the trek up a steep, dirt road to a monolithic concrete structure with a cryogenically frozen Norwegian stored in a TUFF Shed in the back yard. Stranger things have happened, but not in Nederland. When Joe Gierlach ran for mayor, he never dreamed that being the leader of Nederland, a tiny mountain town, would lead to hosting emissaries from countries all over the world and being featured on several international television shows. He owes his moment of fame to the town’s legendary frozen Norwegian, Bredo Morstoel, and the annual Frozen Dead Guy Days Festival that has been named one of the best festivals in the country. Along with his mayoral duties, Gierlach inherited the title of The Mayor of Frozen Dead Guy Days. Now that he has reached the end of his term, Gierlach will lead the FDGD parade, an honor that has been formerly bestowed on Theresa Warren, who began the festival, Aud Morstoel, Bredo’s daughter and Bo Shaffer, aka: The Iceman, who delivered dry ice to Bredo for many years and led the tours to TUFF Shed as well as hosted Bredo’s birthday champagne celebrations. It will be a bitter sweet ride up First Street. Continued on page 42

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Gierlach will miss being a judge the in Bredo Look-alike because I knew there were a lot of misconceptions in Ohio and Ice Queen contest at the Blue Ball. about Colorado. I mean why would anyone go to Colorado if He will miss cutting the ribbon at the Opening Ceremony you weren’t going skiing?” as skeletons dance at the roundabout. One day, while sitting in the train cars, Gierlach saw a flier He loved escorting a famous Japanese comedian through advertising a tour of the house where Grandpa Bredo has been the event’s contests, meeting journalists slumbering in dry ice since his daughter and and photographers and actors from Great grandson were deported back to Norway. Britain, from Denmark. He used to be He took his three-year-old daughter Aspen kind of ordinary guy who liked to ski. with him and says he found it fascinating Gierlach came to Nederland in 1999, to see the house and everything left behind, leaving the corporate world of Cleveland, like the old Xerox machine that printed out Ohio and being an avid skier, found the the plans for the Morstoel’s cryogenics busiski resort town that was 20 minutes from ness proposal to store frozen bodies on the Boulder. One of the first places he visited hill overlooking Barker Reservoir. was the train cars and now, 17 years later, Gierlach was realizing he no longer wanted he looks back on his three terms as mayor to live in a homogenized middle America. and remembers the good times. He wanted to live in a place where people After settling down in town and readwere honored for their individualism, when ing about the event in the newspapers, someone could start a business like the train Gierlach remembers attending one of the cars or a storage center for frozen relatives. Page first Blue Balls. It was held in the Neder- Joe Gierlach at the opening ceremony of a “The Frozen Dead Guy Days event was previous Frozen Dead Guy Days festival. land Mining Museum that had been empty needed. People kind of stay inside in the for awhile. It had no heat and people sat on hay bales, gather- winter and come out in the spring. The event fulfilled multiple ing under heat lamps for warmth. roles, including bringing the community together at the end of During this time Gierlach worked for the Boulder Valley ski season, giving an economic boost and bringing in a carniSchool District and wasn’t involved in the town’s activities. val, Mardi Gras feel, thoughts of birth and death and rebirth.” “I read about the event and thought it was pretty funny The mayor became a regular event attendee and watched and when I saw “Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed,” by the Beeck how the town gradually accepted the festival. Continued on page 44 Sisters, I bought 10 DVDs and sent them to friends in Ohio

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“I remember one parade that started out beautiful, a sunny ing for the festival look for himself, listening to the advice, spring morning and then these huge snowflakes began float- “It’s all about the outfit.” ed over the town as the parade started. It was a magical moAlternate history and science fiction, known as steampunk ment that touched so many of the people that came up from struck his fancy. Popular with the Millennial generation, it comdown below to participate in our festival.” bines the turn of the century with ultra modern In one of the early festivals, Gierlach deism, the old and the new. Joe got a top hat and cided that he was wanted to participate in a scarf, goggles and a long coat and became the most grueling contest: the polar plunge. It known for his Gatsby look. takes a leap of faith to let go of the land and enNow, as Gierlach goes to meetings with other ter the murky, frigid water, a hole surrounded mayors in other towns down below, he brings by ice of the Chipeta Park Kids’ Fishing Pond. them FDGD gifts. He mentions the festival in “I wore this banana outfit made of foam slide presentations for urban planning. He inrubber and I discovered that once the outfit vites city officials to visit the festival. began soaking up water it became heavy. It This year, when dust settles from the pais a shock to the system and for a split secrade, the last band plays, when the last froond, I thought what have I done? Then the zen salmon is tossed and the last beer in the survival instinct kicks in and you need to new tent is downed, it will be Gierlach’s last get out. Then this great feeling of being alive month of being mayor of Nederland. washed over me, I was grateful to be alive “I believe that one person should not domiNederland Mayor Joe Gierlach and grateful that firefighter Eric Abramson nate the political landscape of Nederland. Is Page rescued me. It was exhilarating. I’m not doing it again, but it a requirement that a mayor be involved with the festival? It everyone should do it once.” will be interesting to see how the next mayor will represent In 2010, Gierlach became mayor. For the next four years he FDGD to all the people who visit from all over the world?” opened the FDGD weekend, in many temperatures, most of them freezing, at a ceremony on Friday evening in the round- Barbara Lawlor has been a resident of the Nederland area since about. People showed up in the most adverse conditions. 1970, and a reporter at the local Mountain-Ear newspaper for As the years went on, Gierlach noticed that one of the or- 33 years. She has covered Frozen Dead Guy Days since its inganizers and contest announcer Stephanie Andelman would ception and was the first to learn Bredo’s body was being kept change into at least six outfits in one day and he began search- in a neighborhood shed.

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Reigning champions to retire after 2016 race By Stephanie Andelman he reigning champions for six years running, Coffin Racing Team Pink Socks are here to retain their winning title for a final year. They decided it was time hang up their socks on the drying line and let another team come into the (after) light. “After so many years of dominating the course with our efficient racing style and infectious spirit, we concluded that lucky #7 is our retirement year,” said Jim “Maddog” Cezo who serves as the team’s Master of Disaster and Chief Libations Officer. Back in 2010, six University of Colorado graduate students from Mechanical Engineering were drawn to the kookiness of a coffin race. They found discarded pallets by a dumpster and engineered their coffin in CU’s machine shop. That coffin has withstood life and death and is being carried for its seventh time. The coffin weighs around 175 pounds with its passenger corpse, so these guys know how to carry a heavy load.

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Their team name and costumes were inspired by the common incident of washing your clothes with a red article that turns everything pink, especially your white socks. Team members spray painted their shirts and socks until they knew it was time to dress it up with specialty uniforms. Their pink colors stand out in the crowd, and the audience either loves their winning performance or heckles them in hopes they will finally lose. To put on their race face, they have a preparation ritual. As one team member stated, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are no group of jokers - we train the night before, practicing stops, turns, and sprints. Thus on the day of the race itself, we feel prepared.â&#x20AC;? This year, as their exit celebration, the team will be attending the Blue Ball and staying through all festivities for their first time. Perhaps we can foil their practice with music and beer. The Pink Socks are seasoned outdoor adventurers, but they are not competitive athletes. They welcome fresh blood to kill their stance of victory this year, and Continued on page 50

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Pink Socks To Bury Their Coffin

that blood may just turn everything pink in the wash. Along with Jim “Maddog” Cezo, these team members have raced every single year for the Pink Socks and deserve a cold handshake when you see them running around: Katie “Corpse” Page Cezo, Brian “B$” Francisco and Joel “C-cup” Weber When recalling special memories, Maddog can feel the nervous anticipation of his first year, where winning was a surprise that was then relished. Last year, the four fastest teams were required to write eulogies and read them aloud to the audience of over 10,000 onlookers. Maddog proposed to his then girlfriend who was in the coffin. This now-wed couple will forever be tied to the Frozen Dead Guy Festival, till death do them part.

Pink Socks Eulogy

Here lies KT corpse, frozen stiff in her cut-off jorts. The jewel of the West cast under a spell, to remain asleep until the fates unveil the love of man as hard as rock a hero named Jim, the cold-cocked pink sock. With grandpa as our witness we are honored to share, before these final acts of fitness, a most joyous affair. Jim, if you please...

Jim (kneeling next to the coffin): Katie, will you marry me? Katie (rising from the dead): Of corpse!

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FDGD VIP

$150 VIP PASSES INCLUDE • FDGD VIP wristband • One Blue Ball ticket • A bottomless VIP cup, good for all beverages, all weekend at all three music tents; you must be 21 and be wearing FDGD VIP wristband • VIP parking pass (centrally located) • Commemorative gift • VIP viewing for Coffin Races • Free participation at frozen turkey bowling, brain freeze, one salmon toss & polar plunge • Entrance into FDGD VIP catered lounge bus with VIP potty

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FROZEN MERCHANDISE

Find Frozen Dead Guy Days Merchandise in the festival tents and online at www.frozendeadguydays.org

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