Touchstone by me

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Touchstone by me

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Marc Jensen leading the eighth pitch.

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

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Sep 20, 2009

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Jeff Lowe (with Ron Olevsky) on the 30th aniversary ascent of Touchstone, Dec 2006. <br>
Photo by James Tucker, Nikon D200, 12-24mm f4.

Touchstone by me

Ron Olevsky on Touchstone Wall, from the Les Ellison archives

Marc Jensen leading the eighth pitch.

Touchstone by me

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

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

hanging out on P5

Touchstone by me

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

Marc after the bolt ladder on the 1st pitch.

Panorama from bivy ledge

Aaron Cloud jugging up Pitch 2

freeing the beautiful p3 finger crack

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

Last few traversing moves to top of P4 (?)

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Pitch 2

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

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

Dave Sessions on Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Scotti to the moon

Matt and Brian starting the 3rd pitch.

Cerberus Gendarme showing access trail and Touchstone Wall

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

Touchstone gets crowded. I came in 3rd place.

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Pitch 3

Switching into climbing shoes before p3

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

Zion - Touchstone Wall

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.

Route Overlay Touchstone Wall.

going down

Jared O somewhere on touchstone

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.

Jugging 1st pitch

Sandbox summit pitch

P2 - pulling the roof just above the broken pin.

Cleaning p3

Easy cleaning on p1's bolt ladder

Pitch 2

Connor and I on P.3

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

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

Perfection of pitch three

Virgin berth in bigwall bivying on the Virgin birth ledge

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

Great spot for some shut eye and warm beer

Maryann Loehr on the Touchstone. Photo by Todd Gordon

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

from the bus

taking a little time at the crux

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.

Bomber gear on p1

At the C2 roof crux

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