Touchstone gets crowded. I came in 3rd place.

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Touchstone gets crowded. I came in 3rd place.

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Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Pitch 3

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Jeff Stephens

Oct 23, 2008

“Touchstone gets crowded. I came in 3rd place.”

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Photo by James Tucker, Nikon D200, 12-24mm f4.

Ron Olevsky on Touchstone Wall, from the Les Ellison archives

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Marc Jensen leading the eighth pitch.

hanging out on P5

Why the portaledge? Well, let's just say we like to hang out.

The original "T4" pitch, from the Les Ellison archives.

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Marc after the bolt ladder on the 1st pitch.

Panorama from bivy ledge

freeing the beautiful p3 finger crack

Perin Blanchard and Lee Jensen on the third pitch of <em>Touchstone</em>.<br>
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Photo by Marc Jensen.

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Dave Sessions on Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Last few traversing moves to top of P4 (?)

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Pitch 2

Aaron Cloud jugging up Pitch 2

Matt and Brian starting the 3rd pitch.

Cerberus Gendarme showing access trail and Touchstone Wall

Racking up at the hotel with the heater blasting before a winter ascent. (DEC 1998)

The pitch off the bivy ledge (Pitch 6). Very sandy start.

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Touchstone gets crowded. I came in 3rd place.

Pitch 3

Switching into climbing shoes before p3

Zion - Touchstone Wall

From top of 6th pitch looking down at Virgin Berth Bivy and road.

Lunch on Pitch 5

Pitch 3

Lee Jensen and Perin Blanchard at the second rap station on the <em>Touchstone</em> descent.<br>
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Photo by Marc Jensen.

Matt and Brian on the wide upper pitch. Yellow arrows are the climbers

P4 mid station anchor, 70m barely makes it from P4 anchor to here, knot the ends. Anchor is 2 drilled angles, 1 sticking an inch out, and 1 loose bolt held together by tat and what looks like old funkness cables and quick links.

Perin Blanchard getting to the just-a-wee-bit awkward fists section on the seventh pitch.<br>
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Photo by Marc Jensen.

Sandbox summit pitch

Jugging 1st pitch

P2 - pulling the roof just above the broken pin.

Perfection of pitch three

Easy cleaning on p1's bolt ladder

Descent gully rap anchor. Consists of a star drive and a worse-than-it looks drilled angle. These need updating badly.

Touchstone from the road looking up the treacherously long approach (JK).

The broken pin at the P2 roof.
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Taken 05/21/17

Was I off route? This was the upper section of our 5th pitch, which felt harder than freeing the 3rd pitch. This pitch (our 5th) started off a very decent ledge about 15ft off to the left side of the crack for P4. I placed nothing wider than a #2 on P5, mostly .2 to .4s in the crux here

Cleaning p3

Connor and I on P.3

Maryann Loehr on the Touchstone. Photo by Todd Gordon

Pitch 2

Virgin berth in bigwall bivying on the Virgin birth ledge

At the C2 roof crux

Great spot for some shut eye and warm beer

going down

'It's bomber', Gear right off the p1 anchor on pitch 2

from the bus

High on P2

Marc Jensen emerging from the "short and no fun" squeeze bit on the seventh pitch.

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