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Frozen Dead Guy Days and the Stanley Hotel

March 14, 2013 by Allison Hiltz 12 Comments

Dead Man’s Chest in the coffin races at Frozen Dead Guy Days

 

This past weekend was Frozen Dead Guy Days in Nederland, CO. I first heard about it on a How Stuff Works: Stuff You Should Know podcast about a year ago (while I was living on the East Coast). As soon as my husband and I decided to make the move to CO, I KNEW I had to go to this one.  This was my first time going AND I was lucky enough to have an amazing friend with me. She just happened to be in town from DC and is into weird festivals as much as I am. It was perfect!

What are Frozen Dead Guy Days, you ask? I will tell you! It’s basically a three-day festival that ‘honors’ a frozen dead guy with coffin races, salmon tosses, and frozen turkey bowling. I won’t go too deeply into the story, but basically Bredo Morstoel died in 1989 and was kept frozen in his backyard.  It runs Friday to Sunday, but this year it was cut a bit short because we had a blizzard come through on Saturday. This actually worked out really well for me because I was planning to go on Sunday and a lot of the good Saturday stuff was postponed. I tried some of the local beer, caught a local band, and cheered on the coffin racers.

After attending the festival, we went on a meandering tour of the mountains and stopped in a few ghost towns on our way to a place called Estes Park. Estes Park is home of the Chicken-Fried Latte and the Stanley Hotel,  which is the hotel that inspired The Shining. It’s pretty creepy (even in the daylight) and I took some great shots!

The stairwell inside the Stanley Hotel

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A random hut we found on our drive
Saint Malo’s – Another random find
We found a wagon!

 

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