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	<title>Routesetter.com</title>
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	<description>Information . Education . Community</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Into The Mind of a Setter</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/05/12/into-the-mind-of-a-setter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/05/12/into-the-mind-of-a-setter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 07:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>How-to</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By: Chris Danielson

For me, routesetting is most fun and most rewarding when it becomes an intellectual challenge - when actualizing an interesting creative goal demands analytic problem-solving.]]></description>
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		<title>Limited Edition Fashion Statement</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/05/08/limited-edition-fashion-statement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/05/08/limited-edition-fashion-statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Uncategorized</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Routesetter.com readers have spoken and our team of fashionistas have delivered.

Introducing the limited edition shirts that have been seen on the backs of the Nations top setters.]]></description>
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		<title>CWA Summit Success!</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/05/04/cwa-summit-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/05/04/cwa-summit-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 Climbing Wall Association Summit kicked off last week in Boulder, Colorado. This second annual conference is where climbing wall operators, managers and routesetters from around the world are able to get together and discuss the plastic world we inhabit.

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		<title>Setting Legends: Tim Steele</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/28/setting-legends-tim-steele/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/28/setting-legends-tim-steele/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Interviews</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Steele has been a legendary figure in my mind for as long as I’ve been a routesetter—a condition largely due to the stories my setting mentors would tell about him.

Tim give us a history lesson.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Austrians Take Season Opener</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/23/austrians-take-season-opener/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/23/austrians-take-season-opener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Comps</category>

		<category>International</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the rustic and ancient village of Hall, in the Austrian Tyrol, sits the Salzlager warehouse. This impressive building, once used to store salt mined from the near by hills, is held up by twelve massive salt pillars.

But this past weekend it was the Worlds best boulderers and 1000 spectators that raised the roof at the season opener of the IFSC bouldering World Cup.]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Wall Improvement: Volumes</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/21/diy-wall-improvement-volumes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/21/diy-wall-improvement-volumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>How-to</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you been setting on your wall for years? Have you set every possible hold combination and sequence? Is the most interesting part of your day coming up with the name of the route you just set?

Then maybe it's time to do something about it! ]]></description>
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		<title>Setters Wanted! USA Youth Nationals</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/14/setters-wanted-usa-youth-nationals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/14/setters-wanted-usa-youth-nationals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>USAC</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 SCS Youth Nationals is happening this July at Planet Granite in Sunnyvale, California. Molly Beard, Chief for the event is looking to fill her team with experienced and psyched setters. She’s looking for assistants, apprentices and the relatively new position of intern.]]></description>
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		<title>Turnin&#8217; The Lights On, Gravity Brawl 08</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/07/turnin-the-lights-on-gravity-brawl-08/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/07/turnin-the-lights-on-gravity-brawl-08/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Comps</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2008 tour of the Mammut Bouldering Championships kicked off last weekend at the New Jersey Rock Gym with the opening event, the Gravity Brawl.

Usually a comp is deemed a success by routesetters if every problem gets sent and there are no ties. But routesetting is not just about screwing holds to the wall. It's about putting on a show for the spectators and setting challenging problems that have the climber going home not thinking they have wasted time and money.]]></description>
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		<title>USAC Regional Level Clinic Scheduled</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/03/usac-regional-level-clinic-scheduled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/04/03/usac-regional-level-clinic-scheduled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Training</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you're interested in becoming a National setter and expanding your setting skills beyond the yokel-local level than don't miss out on the first USA Climbing Level 2 Regional routesetting clinic in years.]]></description>
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		<title>Livin Good or Good Livin&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/31/livin-good-or-good-livin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/31/livin-good-or-good-livin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Interviews</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Routesetter.com tracked down the elusive and reckless Thor Livingood and made him talk.  Check out this interview and video that you will not want to miss.]]></description>
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		<title>UP, Up &#038; Away! Skymasters</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/27/up-up-away-skymasters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/27/up-up-away-skymasters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Comps</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On March 14 &#038; 15 British comp climbers were treated to one of the most spectacular climbing structures ever built. Oh, and there was also a comp.

The first ever Ford Skymasters Challenge was touted as a “Gladiator-style climbing competition” and open to any takers. Even though that silly tag-line might have turned off a lot of serious international competitors the comp still saw many of the British national team stepping up to the monster.]]></description>
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		<title>IFSC Youth Worlds Routesetting &#038; Judges Course</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/24/ifsc-youth-worlds-routesetting-judges-course/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/24/ifsc-youth-worlds-routesetting-judges-course/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>International</category>

		<category>Training</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The IFSC website is reporting that they will be hosting an International level routesetting course during the 2008 Youth Worlds in Sydney, Australia this August 23rd – 31st.
After last year's successful clinic during Youth Worlds in Ecuador the IFSC has decided to have a go at it again. The clinic will be taught by legendary setter Jacky Godoffe and International Chief Donghyun Kim and will take place before and during the actual competition.]]></description>
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		<title>The One and Only Dope-Show</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/20/the-one-and-only-dope-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/20/the-one-and-only-dope-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>How-to</category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/20/the-one-and-only-dope-show/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The readers of Routesetter.com spoke in chorus that they wanted how-to videos. Videos that showed other routesetters how to be better setters. So we created the Dope-Show of Knowledge Video Contest.

This was a way for Routesetter.com to get some useful information out to the public in a cool way.]]></description>
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		<title>Conversation With Diane Russell</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/17/conversation-with-diane-russell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/17/conversation-with-diane-russell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Interviews</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the co-owner of Pacific Edge in Santa Cruz, Diane Russell wears many hats – but her favorite job is managing the route setting &#038; organizing the numerous competitions held at PE since it opened 14 years ago. When not climbing outside or inside, Diane rounds life out playing guitar, practicing yoga, cooking good food, &#038; enjoying long hikes.

She tells us how to bring it back old school style, how to set like a PHD and what she wants in a routesetter.]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Out? - Sponsored Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/10/selling-out-sponsored-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.routesetter.com/2008/03/10/selling-out-sponsored-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Gyms</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since it&#8217;s opening in 2006 the Climbing Works bouldering gym in Sheffield, England has been one of the most innovative gyms in the business.
And earlier this month Percy Bishton, owner of Climbing Works, brought English climbers a new way to get psyched about bouldering.
The gym has always set problems modeled after the famous Fontainebleau circuits. [...]]]></description>
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