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Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2011 - 07:35pm PT

Running on low energy today, but I made some
progress. Getting closer. Hopefully tonight, after
my karate class, I can focus in.

adikted

Trad climber

Apr 27, 2011 - 07:37pm PT

Keep on Keeping on Pat....were psyched to see the new one...

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 27, 2011 - 11:02pm PT

thanks. I am working on it, as I speak.
Hopefully will finish tonight, if I don't
crash and burn. I have serious problems with
energy, all diabetes related and probably
a messed up chemistry, and depression on top
of that... but chronic pain saps my energy,
so I have these times where I
just drop in my tracks and can't move,
or else I can't sleep all night but am too
tired to work. But yesterday I met the
most beautiful girl in the world, and we
seem to have hit it off... I can't imagine
why I would will someone like myself on her,
though. Yet wow, it blew my mind just to
talk with her for five minutes. She's
probably too young for me. I suppose my
days of love and romance are long gone.

klk

Trad climber

cali

Apr 27, 2011 - 11:09pm PT

She's probably too young for me.

I'm sure she is.

Congrats, and we can all wait a bit longer for the film.

heh

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 28, 2011 - 02:12pm PT

I was up at 4 and past last night, wide awake,
mind going fast... Today is the day, I believe,
today, if I can just tighten this last part...
The key to the whole film... Hard to stay
objective... I've recorded a lot of new music,
hard to know how and what to use... Getting
close, though...

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2011 - 03:20am PT

Quitting now, for the day. Got a lot done
on the film, almost done. Tired.
Hope all is well with my friends.

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2011 - 05:38pm PT

Got up early, worked until now. I'm on the last
minute of the film... Hope to finish soon,
the gods willing.

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 29, 2011 - 07:12pm PT

Well, the film is done. All I have to do is render it
and burn it to a disk... What a project. What a
learning process.

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2011 - 05:43am PT

Up at 3:30 a.m., did a little rendering...

Jaybro

Social climber

Wolf City, Wyoming

Apr 30, 2011 - 10:42am PT

Photos?
Drove through Fruita yesterday, shoulda said "hey"

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 30, 2011 - 04:02pm PT

Yes my friends should call me when they come
through. There is a nice little cafe/coffee shop
about a block from where I live...

The Lisa

Trad climber

Da Bronx, NY

Apr 30, 2011 - 08:50pm PT

Pat, I will be heading to Cedar Edge, CO in July (flying into Grand Junction). I would love to see you at that cafe :)

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2011 - 01:50am PT

Ok, Lisa. You just have to phone me or
send me an email as to where you'd like to
meet. I can pick you up at the airport, for
that matter. It's not far away.

drunkenmaster

Social climber

santa rosa

May 1, 2011 - 02:44pm PT

Bouldering = "The Poetry of Mountaineering" by Pat Ament.

I just got my copy a few days ago and saved it for a special occasion to watch. last night/saturday night was the occasion and i loved it!! old school footage of john gill was classic and re-inspiring. i never knew he did a one arm lock off/one arm pull up on nearly every climb he did!! he looked stronger than most V15 climbers today! enjoyable and entertaining and most importantly an archive of the bouldering history of america. priceless :)

drunkenmaster/chris summit

Patrick Oliver

Boulder climber

Fruita, Colorado

Topic Author's Reply - May 1, 2011 - 05:21pm PT

Thanks so much, Chris. Nice words. I
really appreciate it.

roadkillphil

Trad climber

Colorado

May 1, 2011 - 09:49pm PT

Looking forward to seeing the DVD. Old Fart nostalgia story...On my first climbing trip to the Needles in the early '70's I was repeatedly failing on the 5.8 "problem" on the Campground Boulder-I will use the excuse that I was wearing my mountain boots, even though that excuse doesn't work anymore-and met this really nice guy who pointed out numerous lines I couldn't and will never do, complete with the arrow to show the start. I told my slightly more experienced fellow gumbies about it at camp, and they went crazy, telling me I had been "climbing" with John Gill.
Never have met him since, but took this pic last week on a snowy day in the Outlets. Hard to find some of those arrows anymore.
If I think about it hard enough, I'm pretty sure one of those "gumbies" was Wolf City Jaybro. We met when I found him and 3 other dudes pushing a VW Microbus UP a hill trying to start it, but that's another story.