The Rainbow Wall
Rainbow Wall, Nevada climbing crag with 9 routes.
Photo: Jarek Tuszyński, CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)- 9 routes
- 5.9 – 5.13b
- Trad
The Rainbow Wall is a traditional climbing area in Nevada's Rainbow Mountain Wilderness, within the Bureau of Land Management's Red Rock/Sloan Field Office. It sits among a cluster of climbing walls, with Brownstone Wall about 0.2 miles away and Juniper Canyon about 0.3 miles off. Nine traditional routes make up the area, ranging from 5.9 to 5.13b in the YDS system. The easiest are Birdhunter Buttress at 5.9 and Paiute Pillar at 5.9, while Desert Solitaire (Free) is the hardest at 5.13b. Several of these routes were first climbed by climbers such as George & Joanne Urioste and Brian McCray. For a longer outing, N Oak Creek Canyon is a hike about 0.9 miles away, and Pine Creek Trail is about 1.1 miles off. Red Rock Canyon Campground, roughly 6.4 miles away, offers a place to stay.
Routes (9)
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