Event Schedule

 
Tuff Shed Tour Check in  and Event Day registration locations have been moved.  Polar Plunge and Coffin races have been added. 

Schedule is not final and subject to change before the festival

Sunday – March 4
Registration for Polar Plunge and Coffin Race check in at Dog House Videos 10am – noon.

8:00am – 11:00am
Sponsored by:

FDGD Pancake Breakfast
Pancakes and more! Eggs and sausage, coffee and juice will be served along side all you can eat pancakes for the whole family. Warm your belly for your day outdoors!
At the Nederland Community Center

10:00am & 4:00pm

Freeze Frame Your Dead Guy Days Experience
Get you photo taken with Grandpa at The Business Connection
1 block W of the traffic circle

Also Dead Guy Day postcards available as events happen!
Dead Guy Day masks and helium balloons too!

10:30am & 2:30pm

Cryogenic Work Shop at Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center
Stop by Wild Bear Mountain Ecology Center to meet Professor Cryo! She is such a wacky scientist and will be performing magic at the Center! We will hammer nails with bananas, shatter beautiful flowers, and make ice cream with nitrogen!

Come on over for the fun and enjoy the delicious treat and bid in the silent auction. Wild Bear is in the lower level of the Shopping Center.

Sunday Tours:
10:00am
1:00pm
3:00pm

Frozen Dead Guy Chocolate Tour!
Tour to the Tuff Shed where Grandpa resides.
Reservations $30, $35 day if available. Tours start at Event Headquarters – 75 1st Street (next to Brain Freezer tent)
more info

11:00am – 6:00pm

Last Day but by no means the least fun at the ReAnimate Yourself Beer Tent in Chipeta ParkReanimate Yourself
• Microbrew beer from Avery and Left Hand specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa’s Spirit drinks
Live Music continues
• Grandpa’s Gift Shop & food vendors.

Sponsored by:

11:00am – 6:00pm

 

Brain Freezer Tent
First Street is still rockin’ at the Brain FreezerTent with Avery and Lefthand serving up beer and Specialty Corpse Reviver and Grandpa Spirit drinks. And more Live Music.

11:00am – 2:00pm
Sponsored by:

Salmon Toss & Sunday Brunch at the Sundance Cafe
Furthest Toss wins the prize.
Come by Anytime!
1 mile South of Nederland on HWY 119

NEW this year!

11:00am – 2:00pm
Sponsored by:

Snowy Beach Volleyball at Chipeta Park
Speed tournament, 8 teams, first come, first serve!
Great Prizes! Tourney being run by Boulder Sport and Social Club.

11:00am – 4:00pm

NEW Location!

Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed
Black Forest Restaurant
Watch the award-winning Grandpa’s in the Tuff Shed short film. Shows approximately every 30 minutes.
The Black Forest Restaurant is right behind the Shopping Center

11:00am – 12:00pm

Sasquatch Investigations Of The Rockies to speak at Voodoo Toys
The SIR will be giving a talk at Voodoo Toys on their organization, research and findings.

Lower level of the Shopping Center.

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Corpse Pose at Tadasana Mountain Yoga
Experience Corpse Pose for yourself. Drop-in anytime between 12 and 1pm, stay for 5 minutes or the whole hour.
$5 (cash appreciated).
Lower level of the Shopping Center

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Charity Polar Plunge in Chipeta Park
Take the freezin’ plunge! RC Rental is providing a warming tent & changing area. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Nederland Fireworks Fund.

Registration and check in at Dog House Videos,

Caribou Shopping Center 10am – noon.

$20 Entry Fee
Registration and Rules

1:00pm

Pioneer Inn’s Frozen T-shirt Contest
How fast can you “get it on” at the Pioneer Inn Frozen T-shirt Contest, for great prizes.
The Pioneer Inn (15 E. 1st Street)

1:00pm – 3:00pm
Sponsored by:

Wild Mountain Icy Turkey Bowling

Test your Poultry Bowling Skills in the Ice Turkey Bowling Contest…In front of Wild Mountain Smokehouse and Brewery
70 East First Street

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Coffin Races at Chipeta Park
30 teams race with a coffin and ‘corpse’ in tow race through a course full of obstacles, mud, snow, playground slides. Who will be the first cross the finish line?

Coffin Race Registration has been closed.We have a full field.
Download rules and waiver.
All teams must check in at Dog House Videos between 10am and Noon.

PRIZES FOR 1ST, 2ND & 3RD PLACE, BEST COSTUME & MOST FDGD SPIRIT

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Brain Freeze Contest
Ooowwwweee!!! Be a Brain Freezer in front Brain Freezer Tent on First Street
Contestants race against each other to finish downing frozen treats for great prizes

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Cool Hand Ice Carving Demonstration
We have to do something with all our snow. Come by and watch the carversas they work. In front of the Brain Freeser tent on First Street.

2:00 pm

The Newly Dead Game

Find out how well you know your partner’s last wishes at The Newly Dead Game. Based on elements of the “The Newlywed Game” TV show. Couples compete for “valuable prizes”!
At the Black Forest (behind the Shopping Center)

2:30pm
Sponsored by:

 

Extreme Air Guitar Competition
Come cheer on these wanna be rockstars!

$5 entry fee
1st place: $100 Cash
2nd place: $50 Gift Card to Wild Mountain

3:00pm
Sponsored by:

First Street Pub & Grill

First Street Pub Rocky Mountain Oyster Eating Contest
Race to eat as many rocky mountain oysters as possible.
First Street Pub & Grill (35 East 1st Street)

5:00pm

Closing Ceremony of 2012 Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland’s roundabout.