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		<title>Current &amp; Immediate Future of Highway One, 1/26/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Grasmuck, resident CHP officer sent me this, this morning: &#8220;Good morning. I&#8217;m at the GSB trailer and just talked to John Matteuchi. They are going to work all weekend and if everything works &#8220;perfectly&#8221; the road will be open on Monday. They have to build a dirt platform in the roadway and park the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13521&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highway One Closure Update #2, 1/24/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spoke with Collins Jones, PIO for Cal-Trans sometime between 4 and 4:30, but I was on the road, and this is the first opportunity I have had to post this update. Resident geologist, John Duffy, and his climbing team went up today and did some &#8220;scaling.&#8221; Scaling is taking the loose stuff down from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13518&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closure Update, 1/24/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[8:00 am &#8211; I have not received any information yet this morning, but was informed by Colin Jones, PIO for Cal-Trans, District 5, last night that the geologists and climbing crew would be on-site today, climbing to the top to check out the conditions up there and making an assessment re: safety and clean-up. Considering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13513&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closure Update, 1/23/12, #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having internet goblins playing games with my connections Monday afternoon, so didn&#8217;t get to post this update from Cal-Trans: Today’s Date: Monday, January 23, 2012 @ 3 pm District: 5 &#8211; Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties Contact: Jim Shivers or Colin Jones Phone: (805) 549-3237 or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13507&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Road Closure Update, 1/23/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noon &#8211; From Cal-Trans: Cal-Trans official press release says there is no anticipated date of re-opening of the road. 9:30 am &#8211; semi-official report: there is no equipment buried under the slide, none of the rock shed is affected, the slide didn&#8217;t take out the light, only the wires going to the light, and it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13492&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Closure of Highway One</title>
		<link>http://bigsurkate.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/hard-closure-of-highway-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Active Slide with debris covering both lanes on the road at Paul&#8217;s Slide/Pitkin&#8217;s Curve/Rain Rocks has closed Highway One indefinitely. Cal-Trans will have geologists look at the matter in the morning to give a better estimate about when it will be able to be cleared, but for now, no traffic will be able to get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13477&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The light &#8230; shines</title>
		<link>http://bigsurkate.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-light-shines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change of pace]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Post Ranch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, the rain continues, but for a change of pace, this photo I took at Post Ranch last month, because the light was just exquisite! Filed under: Photography<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13471&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impressive Rain totals</title>
		<link>http://bigsurkate.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/impressive-rain-totals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bigsurkate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is what is expected: And this is what we got the LAST 24-hours: Can you believe those totals? 7.5 at Three Peaks, over 7 at Chalk Peak, and 5.5 in Big Sur proper? Filed under: 2011-2012 weather watch<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13464&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Sur Multi-Agency Advisory Meeting</title>
		<link>http://bigsurkate.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/big-sur-multi-agency-advisory-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BSMAAC meeting tomorrow, January 20, 2012 at 10:00 am at the Big Sur Lodge Conference Center. On the agenda are two items related to the Brazil Ranch &#8211; performing arts center and parking. Filed under: Events<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13457&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hang Em High Part 3</title>
		<link>http://bigsurkate.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/hang-em-high-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone. Avis here with the last installment of my experience 172&#8242; in the air, in a basket, above the Pitkin Curve bridge &#38; rock shed job. This time I will focus on the rock shed. An amazing feat of man and machine working to alter the flow of &#8220;Mother Nature&#8221; Common in Europe for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bigsurkate.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4146571&amp;post=13434&amp;subd=bigsurkate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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