Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 5, 2011 - 05:19pm PT
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Bump it or dump it...
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Weld_it
Trad climber
Chatsworth
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FACT: BE MORE LIKE JOHN LONG AND LESS LIKE SHELLEY LONG ON THE BOLDERS
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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I bouldered a couple of feet above ground
you say that like it's a bad thing.
that's where i live these days. nice movement is nice movement.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 5, 2011 - 10:34pm PT
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Thanks for the vote of confidence/and/or encouragement,
Kerwin. The older I get, the smaller the climbs... it seems.
I'm down now to about three feet. I did pull up just a little
on those holds that disintegrated on me in the movie, but
frankly that was too freaky... to go back to where I met
my demise, of sort...
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Pat, glad you're getting out - it's the desire and intent that matter, not the result. But don't get hurt again, eh?
at the moment, bouldering is the most grommet-oriented subculture in north america.
And Kerwin, being a historian who has likely read his Samuel Eliot Morison, likely even knows what a gromet is. Gromet being the correct spelling - a grommet is a gadget that is used on fabric to make an attachment point.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 11:07am PT
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I wouldn't call it "getting out." A quick
glimpse at the rock, then ran away in terror...
with Ryan taking shots of my retreating
backside...
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Gromet being the correct spelling - a grommet is a gadget that is used on fabric to make an attachment point.
Yeah, canvas tarps (like sails) used to have grommets. Although the spelling then was "grommet," possibly an Americanization or maybe just regular typos in the OI literature.
I have no idea how "grommet" became part of the vernacular or where. Presumably surfing, since mx and climbing in SoCal seemed to copy surfer culture as closely as possible.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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A gromet is a ship's boy on a sailing vessel. Not sure what the derivation is, but it's a term that has somewhat fallen into disuse over the last 150 years.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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A gromet is a ship's boy on a sailing vessel. Not sure what the derivation is, but it's a term that has somewhat fallen into disuse over the last 150 years.
heh
btw, OED also uses two "m"s:
http://www.oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/82010
apparently from the 15thc french, "grommette." Maybe someone else has the time to chase that down through the etymological dictionaries.
this is some serious thread drift, but maybe it'll sell some merch.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 03:23pm PT
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I have to confess I have no idea
what you two are talking about.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Don't mind us. We're cheerfully bumping your thread, while discussing arcane maritime terminology. Kerwin started it, when he said that "bouldering is the most grommet-oriented subculture in north america".
Morison says that Columbus' log spelt it "grumetes", but that the equivalent in Elizabethan English was "gromet", usually meaning ship's boys or apprentice seamen. There were ten gromets on Santa Maria, eight on Pinta, and six on Nina. As Morison was a rather well-respected historian, he can spell it however he wanted.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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pat, "grommet" is jargon for "kid." anders was explaining where the word came from.
one of the cool things about yr gill movie is that bouldering now is so dominated by pre-teen and teenage boys, that many American climbers have a tough time thinking of adults participating in it at all. really good for audiences in the US to see multiple generations of bouldering.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 6, 2011 - 09:15pm PT
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All right, thanks. That makes sense, and I
appreciate it.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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Both of my shoulders hurt like heck, since that tiny
little bouldering escapade, and I am sore all over...
in part because of the orthobionomy probably...
My day in the sun feels like some tiny flash of light
in a carabiner some instant of some warm afternoon
a whole lot of decades ago...
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2011 - 08:34pm PT
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Got together with my good friend Dave Williams,
with whom I rode the freights a number of years
ago. He was a professor and wanted to learn how,
so phoned me one day and said I should take him
on a trip. It was good fun. He was passing
through today, so we met for dinner... Friendships
are the most important thing.
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 7, 2011 - 11:49pm PT
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keep on keepin' on...
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2011 - 01:54pm PT
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...and on...and on...
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 8, 2011 - 07:34pm PT
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and on even yet once more...
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Patrick Oliver
Boulder climber
Fruita, Colorado
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Topic Author's Reply - May 9, 2011 - 10:35am PT
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I need to get talking about something.
I keep fiddling with this new film,
haven't had much energy to make the last
technical steps... Had a couple of strange
panic-like attacks recently, and yesterday
evening. Thought I was done with those.
I seem not to be bothered by them, and I just
sit there and watch them happen... pretty
subtle and nothing dramatic,
but my body (or mind) must be sending me a
message... of anxiety or something... about
what, I don't know. Maybe it has to do with
the realization that Ryan will post his
new photos so people can see how out of shape
I've gotten. I look a little like that mall-cop
actor... sad. It was weird trying to pull myself
up on tiny holds. Felt as though I had tied
a couple of bowling balls to my fanny pack.
If I could get my feet off the ground it was
one of those moments when the shutter would fly...
Ryan is a great guy, though. Glad I met him.
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
Run like the wind.
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Hey Pat
I had a dream about you either last night or the night before. You were telling me something in that low voice you used at the start of your video, when you're talking to your kid. I have bad ears and I could see your mouth moving but couldn't make out the words.
It was very frustrating! Next time you intrude on one of my dreams, brother, SPEAK UP WILLYA! What with all this ringing in my ears its hard to hear my dreams sometimes.
No hidden message here dude. I really had that dream. I was all, 'huh?'
"HUH???!!!"
Lol.
DMT
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