The 2015 bouldering expansion is currently under construction! “It’s amazing to see our designs becoming a reality,” said Pipeworks manager Vaughn Medford. The bouldering area will be 9,000 sq ft, which more than triples the current bouldering space at Pipeworks. “We are working with Walltopia to build the walls,” said Sr Touchstone Manager Jeffery Bowling. […]
Whether daytime or night, blazing hot or ice cold in the gym, most likely you will find our next member with his signature hooded sweatshirt on. He is a husband, father, pet owner, friend, and far too many other titles to mention in an introductory paragraph. When it comes to life advice, I can say […]
“Dogpatch Boulders, in case you don’t know already, is by the same people who brought us Mission Cliffs (and we all know how much kids love that place!). Here, you’ll find kids classes (for the five and up set), parties and camps. There is a short climbing wall and a play structure just for smaller […]
Picture one of the United State’s best climbing crags just a few hours from San Francisco with perfect winter temps and a long season. Jailhouse is the ideal place for projecting. The regular climbers hit the crag every weekend, on breaks from work and on the occasional sick day. They obsess over the steep basalt. […]
The gym intimidates me. Tons of shirtless dudes and waif girls run about crushing the plastic problems, bench pressing huge weights, pounding out miles on the treadmill and pretzeling into a million yoga poses. Still, I want to get in shape for an upcoming trip to Spain. I took a tip from body builder Ronnie […]
I picked up my medieval torture devices, a foam block and a strap, and flopped into the corner of the Berkeley Ironworks yoga room. The next 75 minutes could kill me. “Do you think yoga helps with climbing?” I asked a few of my friends. In the past week, I attended five different yoga classes in […]
Taking advantage of the Thanksgiving break from school and the comforting feeling of being done with the very last college application, GWPC’s own Teen Team, The East Betas ventured out to Bishop, CA for an extended weekend of bouldering. The list of crushers included some seasoned team veterans (Grace Gibbon, Elise Buser, Thalia Barr-Malec), new-to-climbing […]
Whether you’re hanging stockings above your yule log, flippin’ latkes and lighting your menorah, or dancin’ round your festivus pole, TIS the season. And while sure, you’ve been dropping subtle hints to your significant other about how much you’d both benefit from a jetboil, the best part of the season is seeing look on someones […]
Cuong Phu Trinh submitted this write up to the Touchstone Blog. Awesome story! I received a Tweet from friends asking if I wanted to climb at the non-Touchstone climbing gym closest to my Southern California home. I declined as I was packing up for a trip up north and mentioned my plans to climb at […]
