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	<description>. . . and running blog and sometimes other adventures . . .</description>
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		<title>Owl&#8217;s Lair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s post about ratings, I found myself at Owl&#8217;s Lair on Bizarro day.  The easiest route we did, The Bad (a fun and well-protected corner/crack until the top where it becomes an easy and unprotected face climb), was nominally the hardest at 5.8.  Meanwhile, some of the supposedly easier routes we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a number?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Would a route by any other rating be as hard?
I haven&#8217;t climbed at Cathole in years, and by years I probably mean 10 of them.  There was only one route I could remember having anything to do with and that was Pegasus.  I knew it was one of the Connecticut classics and remembered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/10/whats-in-a-number.html</link>
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		<title>A little local action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t climb locally very often, so sometimes the gear and the moves feel iffy, but Saturday everything seemed to be flowing (aside from a few minutes stuck at the crux of Wishbone).  John kept his head together following Knight&#8217;s Move and did some wild offwidth, gaston moves on Vector. I saw some friends I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/09/a-little-local-action.html</link>
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		<title>So sweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That first pitch of Erect Direction is probably one of the nicest pitches in the Gunks.  It&#8217;s a shorter, less strenuous, less sustained version of Double Crack and, except for the shorter part, I think I appreciate that about it.  Erect Direction P1 offers stress-free fun.
This is the time of the year when the Gunks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/09/so-sweet.html</link>
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		<title>Cathy visits the Gunks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I asked Cathy what her favorite route was and she picked rapping Madame G&#8217;s in the freak hail storm.  Yeah, it was memorable.  We were finishing Madame G&#8217;s as the thunder got serious.  We knew we needed to get down fast or get soaked, but I&#8217;d assured Cathy that people didn&#8217;t die from lightning strikes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/09/cathy-visits-the-gunks.html</link>
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		<title>Pinnacle of Perfection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A beautiful day, a breath-taking view, one great partner, and a few nice moderates.  Thanks to the Yale Climbing Club for sharing their guidebook and the rock with us.
Herbarium, 5.5
First Crack, 5.4
Third Crack, 5.7+
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		<title>John&#8217;s first day at the Gunks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John&#8217;s taken the belay class at the gym and climbed there twice so it was time to let him have a taste of real rock.  The way he took to the crack at the gym&#8211;executing a backstep foot jam move I&#8217;ve never actually seen before&#8211;suggested he&#8217;d be a natural, and his total lack of regard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/09/johns-first-day-at-the-gunks.html</link>
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		<title>Farley with the folks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to Farley with Dan and Christine and Eric and Jack. I&#8217;d tell you what we climbed but I don&#8217;t really know.  Much of it I&#8217;d done before but there was a 5.12 roof to the left of a 5.8 which I hadn&#8217;t (for obvious reasons).  The approach to the 5.12 roof was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/08/farley-with-the-folks.html</link>
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		<title>Climbing with the Colorado folks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High E, 5.6 (Dawn &#38; Steven)
Bonnie&#8217;s Roof, 5.8 (P1: Tom, P2: Shelly)
Pink Laurel, 5.9 (Dawn)
Classic, 5.7 (Tom)
Jackie, 5.5 (Steven)
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		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/08/climbing-with-the-colorado-folks.html</link>
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		<title>Thursday with Todd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Birdie Party, 5.8 (P1 &#38; 2: Dawn)
Interstice, 5.10 (TR)
MF Direct, 5.10 (Todd)
Mother&#8217;s Day Party, 5.10 (TR)
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		<link>http://dawnalguard.com/climbing/2010/07/thursday-with-todd.html</link>
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