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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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May 10, 2011 - 10:25pm PT
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Rodger, that was mentioned and discussed quite a bit earlier in the thread.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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May 11, 2011 - 12:16am PT
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Does anyone know what Chris's middle initial was?
I've found a couple of Chris Frederick's in California but no idea if it's him.
I know the Berkeley climbers went through a period of calling each other by their middle names so maybe one of them remembers?
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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May 11, 2011 - 12:19am PT
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Yes that was a thing Layton started. Maybe he picked it up from
someone in California, but I tend to think they picked it up
from him. In any case, though, I never heard Chris referred to
by his middle name, and I doubt anyone could even guess it. Almost
everyone referred to him as Fredericks.
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Rick Sylvester
Trad climber
Squaw Valley, California
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May 11, 2011 - 05:12am PT
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I never knew Chris was called or referred to as "Christ" until I got on the Forum. I wonder when it began.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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May 11, 2011 - 08:58am PT
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It was going strong in 1965 already in the Valley. In Boulder we just knew him as Chris.
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Cherie
climber
sebastopol, ca
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May 22, 2011 - 08:05pm PT
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A million years ago Chris was working as night watchman up at Glacier Point Hotel. I was visiting my sister Joan who worked there with him. She introduced him as "Christ," he supposedly having that nickname because he looked so...Christ-like. Just before I joined him on his rounds checking the dark and empty bat-filled upper floors of the hotel, she whispered to me that he had the most beautiful head of hair she'd ever seen, blond and flowing to his hips. Anyone remembering Joan will perhaps recall her fiendish sense of humor. I was 15 and probably incapable of hiding my look of shock and confusion when he took off his stocking cap.
I too wonder where he is and what he's up to. Last saw him when we worked together at Trailwise where he was a down-filler, leaving a trail of feathers wherever he walked, outraging the Christian Asian seamstresses with his Zen Buddhism.
Hello to old Camp 4 friends of yore!
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Cherie
Social climber
sebastopol, ca
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May 23, 2011 - 08:07pm PT
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A million years ago Chris was working as night watchman up at Glacier Point Hotel. I was visiting my sister Joan who worked there with him. She introduced him as "Christ," he supposedly having that nickname because he looked so...Christ-like. And was of a 'spiritual' bent. Just before I joined him on his rounds checking the dark and empty bat-filled upper floors of the hotel, Jo whispered to me that he had the most beautiful head of hair she'd ever seen, blond and flowing to his hips. Anyone remembering her will perhaps recall her fiendish sense of humor. I was 15 and probably incapable of hiding my look of shock and confusion when he took off his stocking cap.
I too wonder where he is and what he's up to. Last saw him when we worked together at Trailwise where he was a down-filler, leaving a stream of feathers wherever he walked, outraging the Christian Asian seamstresses with his Zen Buddhism.
Hello to old Camp 4 friends of yore!
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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May 23, 2011 - 08:09pm PT
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I was a filler there a few years later.
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go-B
climber
Sozo
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May 23, 2011 - 09:28pm PT
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I feel like a fly on the wall, way cool, Thx!
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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bump
where is he???
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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I heard from a Berkeley friend that he had gotten married and was living the suburban life in Antioch?
I think John Morton told me that.
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storer
Trad climber
Golden, Colorado
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Pratt would sometimes show up in the basement of Eshleman Hall at UC (early '60's). We would meet regularly during lunch in the UCHC office to socialize. We would traverse around the cubicles using the lower moulding for the feet, trying for "no hands". Chuck was impressive doing this.
I heard that he had lined up standing empty coke bottles there and walked with great composure on their necks. I didn't see this myself but Chuck was so fluid that I can believe it.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Piece of cake...Richard Thompson III Sindicato Granitica banquet photo.
I need to contact Chris to see if he would be willing to speak at next years Oakdale Climbers Festival.
Has anyone made headway on his current contact information?
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 12, 2012 - 12:26pm PT
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Still looking for signs of Chris...
Nothing from Roper that is current.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Feb 16, 2013 - 09:42pm PT
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i do wish Chris would reappear
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 26, 2013 - 03:24pm PT
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I am still trying to get contact info for Chris if anyone has suggestions.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Feb 11, 2014 - 01:24am PT
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bump
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groundhog
Mountain climber
irvine
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Jan 26, 2017 - 01:13pm PT
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I worked with Chris in the summer of 1971 at the Palisades School of Mountaineering along with Don Jensen. Thereafter I saw him in 1975 working at the new Berkeley REI (I think, or was it the North Face?). Maybe you can check their employee records?
But nothing since...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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Apr 15, 2018 - 01:36pm PT
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I found him finally or rather, he found me. On Facebook of course!
His wife has just died of ALS so Chris has been through a lot the past few years.
If you knew him back in the day you might want to look him up. I'm guessing he could use support from his old friends right now.
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Apr 15, 2018 - 05:46pm PT
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Hey Jan- I am not an old friend but I would very much like to interview Chris so please send me his contact information if he is agreeable to it.
Cheers
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