Team Touchstone’s Nilo Batle at the World Championships
Earlier this year, Team Touchstone athlete Nilo Batle competed in Arco Italy in the World Championships! Check out this awesome video to learn more about his experience – great work Nilo!
TCS2015 Berkeley Ironworks Comp Video
From routesetters to desk staff, climbers to pizza makers – SO much work goes into putting on a Touchstone Climbing Series Competition. This Richmond Youth Media helped us capture a bit of the chaos in this awesome video. Check it out!
Team Touchstone Athlete Profile: Matt Grossman
Team Touchstone, our competitive youth climbing team, is made up of a veritable cornucopia of crushers of all ages. Meet the kids who are representing us at competitions around the country – nay – world! This week we sat down with climber and videographer Matt Grossman. Matt, who is currently climbing in Ceuse, France while […]
Recap: TCS2015 at GWPC
The 2015 Touchstone Climbing Series is almost half way through – which means it’s rope finale time! Our members and guests have climbed at MetalMark Climbing in Fresno, Diablo Rock Gym in Concord, The Studio Climbing in San Jose and Great Western Power Co in Oakland. On Saturday, June 27th, competitors will come together to […]
Welcome to LA Boulders
We’re not your average gym – so we don’t have you average tour video. LA Boulders opened its doors in 2014, and since then it’s grown to be so much more than just Southern California’s largest indoor bouldering gym. Check out this hilarious video to get the tour of the climbing, yoga, fitness and more […]
Daniel Woods v11 Flash at Berkeley Ironworks
Thankfully there were enough people lurking around the wave to catch some of the awesome-ness that happened yesterday at Berkeley Ironworks with the North Face team. Thanks for stopping by! Here’s Daniel Woods doing what he does best…sending hard stuff first try.
Beta Video: v7 at Dogpatch Boulders
This behemoth is at Dogpatch Boulders NOW, and is just waiting for you! Want the on-sight? Don’t watch the video till you’ve sent the problem and see if you climbed it like JHo. Stumped? Check out his beta and see if it helps you take this monster down! Big thanks to Five Ten for sponsoring […]
Sacramento Pipeworks Bouldering Expansion
The Sacramento Pipeworks bouldering expansion, which was completed in early 2015, added over 5,000 sq ft of bouldering terrain to the gym. We worked with Walltopia to design and build world class terrain, and Flashed Climbing to construct our flooring system. Check out this video to see the gym while it was half way completed.
Route Setting at Sacramento Pipeworks
Our route setters are at Sacramento Pipeworks day in and day out setting new routes and boulder problems so there is always something new to climb. Check out this video to meet the crew and see what it takes to be a Touchstone setter.
Deja Vu
You know that feeling you get when you walk into the gym and BAM! It’s chalk full of brand new routes and boulder problems for you climb, crush and curse? We owe it all to our route setting crew. Route setters are, by nature, a different breed. The job is 3/4 manual labor, 1/8 creativity, […]
