Great spot for some shut eye and warm beer

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Great spot for some shut eye and warm beer

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Climbers making their way up P4

Touchstone by me

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Michelle Vlasich

Feb 19, 2022

“Great spot for some shut eye and warm beer”

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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.

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

Touchstone by me

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

hanging out on P5

Touchstone by me

Marc after the bolt ladder on the 1st pitch.

Panorama from bivy ledge

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

Scotti to the moon

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

Aaron Cloud jugging up Pitch 2

Pitch 2

Last few traversing moves to top of P4 (?)

Matt and Brian starting the 3rd pitch.

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

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

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

Dave Sessions on Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

View from the summit towards Angels Landing

freeing the beautiful p3 finger crack

Touchstone. (DEC 1998)

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

Pitch 3

Lunch on Pitch 5

Pitch 2 on Touchstone

HG chilling

Dropping a layer and retooling before launching up pitch 3 with beautiful exposure

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

Route Overlay Touchstone Wall.

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

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

Pitch 4 on Touchstone

Pitch 2 on Touchstone

from the bus

Pitch 2

Connor and I on P.3

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

Pitch 3 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.

Pitch 6 on Touchstone

Jared O somewhere on touchstone

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

P2 - pulling the roof just above the broken pin.

taking a little time at the crux

Easy cleaning on p1's bolt ladder

Bomber gear on p1

Cleaning p3

Climbers making their way up P4

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