Rainbow Wall

"This route has become one of my favorites. The last time I did it I added Juniper and Gunsight, which really doesn't extend the trip time by much time, distance or elevation. This trip was up the Gunsight Notch and directly to Walk Up Wall from there. The crack on the north side of Rainbow Wall looks intimidating, but actually it is really not too bad. You feel protected on a lot of the climbs...that have permanent ropes for assistance. Overall, a great route and day! " — Heartattackbruce • May 13, 2025

"Last year I made it only half way due to lots of water in the canyon. I returned on the day when the canyon was almost dry. Still lots of boulder hopping and climbing. The crux is a scary 50m Class 4 downclimb. It felt like low Class 5 to me." — Taras • Dec 19, 2024

"Attempted to go up the rainbow w/ ledges route but didn't have a rope on me to get up the waterfall traverse at the bottom of the amphitheatre. Instead I opted to check out the walk up wall which was in good condition. Summited Rainbow Wall at sunset, and rainbow peak shortly after. Copious amounts of water on oak creek descent if you have a water filter!" — MikeERodriguez • Jun 23, 2024

"Always a fun loop that can be modified in many ways...adding or subtracting peaks on the way. It's fun to see the expressions on the faces of the team when they do the Rainbow Direct route for the first time. " — Heartattackbruce • Apr 21, 2024

"Mainly this a condition report. I was on this route about 1.5 years before. As of 4/14/2024, the canyon has more water than usual, so there may be more creative routing around the pools. There is obvious evidence of the floods last September and after, and there seem to be many fewer cairns. This is at least my 12th time, by many different routes; the other routes may be technically harder, but this one can be exhausting in high water condition, mainly due to the bouldering through Oak Creek. " — hwstock • Apr 14, 2024

"This six peak route was stitched together by taking several segments of other routes and linking them up for one great, challenging, fun route. We took minimal, short breaks in order to assure that we could get it done in a reasonable amount of time....being that no one we knew had ever done it, so the time to complete was a guesstimate. Nine hours later we arrived back at the car, completing an epic, loop adventure. If you use the attached track, please be aware that there may be sections of it that you might not want to attempt unless you are used to climbing Class 4/5 without ropes. What a day!" — Heartattackbruce • Oct 22, 2023

"I had never done this route before, but had done some sections of it in the past. It turned out to be a keeper route...definitely will be adding it to the top 10 list. The crack climb between Walk Up Wall and Rainbow Wall is not for the faint of heart. Just don't look down. I'm glad I experienced it going up. I think if I was going down it the first time there, I may have turned around. There are 4 ropes that we used as an assist going up....not knowing the quality of the anchors, etc....we tried to be as gentle as possible with weighting on the ropes. It turns out that they are in good condition. There a couple of ropes on the Rainbow Direct route that should probably be replaced. It will be easy to modify this route to include a few more peaks. Next time! " — Heartattackbruce • Sep 23, 2023

"Intense 4th class down climb at very end. Other than that pretty chill . Raw dogged some water from oak creek where I broke off to tag it. Looked clear and was cool and tasty on this hot day. Looks like 52 peak club was on rainbow mtn today but I missed them, must have either started real early or did it from juniper canyon . I got 18 red rock peaks left in r&s Peakery is also getting ridiculous with their elevation stats, it said I had 6100 ft before I saved it , it always shorts me at least 1000 " — joshortman • May 13, 2023

"12 miles, 4000’ gain from Lovell Canyon w/Harlan. Thank you very much Friend. He packed for both Rainbows. Harlan Stockman was nice and set up a protection rope for the 100’ lump you have to conquer to get to the special Rainbow where the unicorns live. The airy exposure was too much for my experience level and I couldn’t bring myself to do it. Next time...great workout regardless. Harlan is teaching me to be a master one day. One day this will be my playground too. :@)" — paula.raimondi • Apr 28, 2019

"Hiked up Juniper Canyon through Gunsight Notch and around to Rainbow Wall. Headed over to Rainbow Mountain and back down through Gunsight Notch. A grueling but rewarding day of hiking/scrambling" — jasonj • May 23, 2015