This is a list of all the latest news and happenings at all six Touchstone Facilities. This blog also contains general information about Rock Climbing, Cycling and other items that Touchstone members may find interesting.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
DRG Comp Video
Check out the recent video made of the Touchstone Bouldering Series comp at Diablo Rock Gym.
Get out your chalk buckets, the Touchstone Bouldering Series is coming back this summer. The TBS is returning for it's fifth season starting at Mission Cliffs in July and continue through the finale in November at Berkeley Ironworks. You can see all the dates below and you can get more details on the TBS page.
July 24th Mission Cliffs August 21st Diablo Rock Gym September 18th GWPC October 16th Sacramento Pipeworks Nov 13th Berkeley Ironworks
As always, these comps are FREE to all Touchstone members. They all include Free Food, Free Beer & Soda, Free T-shirt & of course, lots of climbing.
TBS4 has officially come to an end and while we have to wait until July to see it return, we wanted to give all of you a bit of a wrap up to let you know just how fun, and how successful it really was. Without a doubt, this was our most successful Touchstone Bouldering Series ever, and after the way it went, we're looking forward to the next round!
Here's a bit of a wrap up, in case you missed anything, or if you just wanted a little bit of information as to exactly how it all went down:
The last competition was at Ironworks on Friday. We had 345 competitors at this one and that officially made it our largest ever competition. Over the 5 different competitions that made up TBS4 we had even more people, 758 total climbers came together over 5 different events to make this our largest series Ever.
If you want to see the full results, feel free to head over here and dive right in. For now, here are the winners of each different category, but congratulations to each and every one of you that participated.
Women's Beginner Division - Tobie Chan-Kalin
Women's Intermediate Division - Karen Benitez
Women's Advanced Division - Hally Tollner
Men's Beginner Division -Joseph Markette
Men's Intermediate Division - John Ricco
Men's Advanced Division - Troy Gibb
Thank everyone who came out and made this such a great season. If you have not had a chance to come to these competitions, they have free pizza, free Beer, free T-shirt, Raffle Prizes, tons of new climbing and lots of great people. Now is the time to join up and start putting your skills to the test and having a lot of fun.
If you are looking for our old newsletters, check out the newsletter archive. Here you will find Touchstone newsletters dating back to May 2004.
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