Tumbling Rainbow 

Fun. Worth doing if you are there to do run for you life. Not sure where the "R" rating came from. The climbing is easily protected.

Tumbling Rainbow is a wonderful climb. It walks like an offwidth, quacks like an offwidth, but doesn't climb like one. The climb is full of hand and fist jams that dispense with anything even resembling groveling. The gear is bomber and pretty conventional--#3 and #4 Camalots and a big Hex or two. This climb is NOT an R.

I stepped over Locker's broken body yesterday to lead this route for the first time and decompress from RFYL. It's an excellent route that deserves more than one star and tends to erase my near death experience on RFYL. Pro is great with no runouts. Take all your large cams.

while leading this route yesterday, I foolishly tried to stay out of the wide, flaring crack. It was a huge mistake. I popped and my foot is now useless for a few weeks in the least. Stay in that damned wide crack! I was an idiot not to.............and as Woody stated, at least a few large cams #3 and up......the start of the route takes nice small nuts to protect you and oyur belayer............OUCH!!! It is on the list of first routes to complete when I heal......

Felt like an OW to me. I couldn't imagine climbing it without getting part way inside the crack. Am I missing something?

Crotch.......you're missing nothing in my opinion...it is very much and Offwidth a bit chossy and a deffinate partial body move to boot...I was trying to stay out rather than in and was doing relatively good when of course my great new way to do something different drastcally failed and I popped like a bad zit on the forehead of a teen on his way to his first dance..............

Crotch R. wrote some time back and I am finally responding...

"I couldn't imagine climbing it without getting part way inside the crack. Am I missing something?"...

Well I was actually attempting to stay out of the crack and doing pretty damned good until I wasn't... I often try variations. More often than not they are harder. On the occassion of my fall and broken foot it was deffinatly harder... Was it ever!!!...

Good route, very adequate pro, and a nice location. Use the rap anchors for Run For Your Life to get off the formation.