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		<title>route descriptions from the TNF team</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the TNF team on a &#8220;Sand Castles&#8221; summit © Mark Synott, 2012 Around new year, Hazel Findlay kindly sent me descriptions for routes done during the North Face team&#8217;s visit last year. More recently Mark Synnott sent me some photos that complement her work. I have combined the material in a document linked here. Mark&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>another new topo &#8211; &#8220;The Ranch&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just uploaded an up-to-date topo for the Ranch cliff in Wadi Khab Shamis. Brian Coones and friends have been developing routes there for the last couple of years. The topo is Brian&#8217;s work.]]></description>
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		<title>some updates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[3Somes is the area midway up the gully left of centre. Viewed from the Wadi Shahah road. Ralph Heath has uploaded details of some of the new crags he has developed in RAK over the last few years to SummitPost. A mix of trad and sport. 3Somes Zombie Skull Thunder Birthday Crag I repeated some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAE guidebook on sale in Squamish!</title>
		<link>http://www.redarmadapublishing.com/blog/?p=1694</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are now a few copies of &#8220;UAE Rock Climbing&#8221; on the shelves in ClimbOn/ OutWest in Squamish. This is the first time the book has been stocked in North America, as far as I know. Interestingly sales from the distributor in the UK &#8211; which either go to online or European retail outlets &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TNF celebrity team visiting Musandam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Chin on the TNF yacht © Mikey Schaefer, 2012 Based on various small nuggets of information on the web, it seems a team of The North Face sponsored athletes, photographers and film-makers (Alex Honnold, Hazel Findlay, Renan Ozturk, Jimmy Chin, others) is visiting the Musandam coast for two weeks in a 40&#8242; trimaran. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>reworked Acquiescence topo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the last moves of pitch one of Acquiescence Someone took an interest in my route Acquiescence in Wadi Ghalilah recently. This reminded me that neither the topo on the website nor the description in the guidebook (from when the route was still a project) are very good. I have uploaded an improved PDF topo here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>expediency and &#8220;professional&#8221; journalism</title>
		<link>http://www.redarmadapublishing.com/blog/?p=1621</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Done some hiking once? Convinced your editors you&#8217;re an authority on all things outdoor? But targeting a longer piece than you can be arsed to fill with your own work? Welcome to the Red Armada Publishing online resources: a rich source of content to plunder. Last week some unfortunate assumed-to-be-inexperienced expat guy fell off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>access to Dibba climbing areas</title>
		<link>http://www.redarmadapublishing.com/blog/?p=1605</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the summer months, various people have reported problems entering the Oman side of Dibba. Specifically the men with uniforms and guns (*) managing the two border crossings have been turning back expats unable to evidence a hotel stay or pre-booked activity with a known Dibba Omani company. This is obviously awkward for climbers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mystery Cleavage route and other RAK notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 05:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Dave Watson, Paul du Toit and I did a midsummer tour around the Roadside and Wadi Shahah area. I redpointed the mystery bolted line left of Hanging Haemorrhoid at the Cleavage. Unless anyone else claims it and has a name, I am calling it Lidocaine (*). The grade is F6c or F6c+. Hanging Haemorrhoid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>mid-summer bolting at Wonderwall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Circus Sands and the Gutter project (new bolts in red) Some bolting work has been done in the Circus Sands/ Central Wall sector of Wonderwall. Circus Sands itself has six new bolts, four on the first pitch and two on the top pitch. This makes the route significantly safer, especially on the easy initial slab, [...]]]></description>
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