
Starting along the Oak Creek Canyon Trail.


Leave the trail and enter the Oak Creek streambed.

Obstacles and boulder-hopping for most of the canyon.




Fun slick slopes along the way.


And then a trickle of water appears! It continues to the head of the canyon, with short slopey waterfalls as obstacles and pretty views.

Hanging out on a Class 2 section of waterfall slab.



A particularly interesting area toward the top.



Okay, I know I took a lot of waterfall shots. The lighting was nice and they're just super colorful and pretty.


Last Class 2 waterfall obstacle just before getting to the second canyon junction.

View back down-canyon.

Go right at the junction ahead.

You can see the limestone of the Keystone Thrust above.

Heading up the side canyon. A social trail leads up to the ridge.

Almost at the Rainbow Mountain ridge.

At the ridge, looking toward Bridge Mountain (left). Rainbow Mountain's west ridge on the right. You can see some rock outcroppings along the ridge crest. The route leads to the left around them.

Avoiding a rock outcrop on the left. Rainbow Wall up there somewhere.

Ascending to Rainbow Mountain. Mount Wilson visible over there on the right.

At this forested section, going though the trees leads to Rainbow Mountain. To the left up the burnt orange slab goes to Rainbow Wall.

Slickrock section before Rainbow Mountain.

Looking back across the slickrock section, almost at Rainbow Mountain.

Rainbow Mountain, view toward Rainbow Peak on the right.

Approaching the spot where I was convinced there was no way down, non-technically. Rainbow Peak seen ahead.

But there is! A cairn leads to the right.

And the cairns lead down this Class 3 stuff. It's a bit dangerous, but solid rock and reasonable to navigate. Rainbow Peak seen ahead. On the start of the way down, it's a bit exposed Class 2/3.

Then you get to the crux, seen here. The next few photos are compliments of my friend Yossi Sadowsky. I didn't have great photos of the crux, so he sent me some to use. Where Yossi is standing, there are some handholds on the left helpful to reach the ledge on the left. From there, you can descend into the chimney seen left of center, or just right of the chimney, where Jeff is seen below.

View up at the cross move crux, just above the crack seen here. There's a handhold to aid in this short cross move, which puts you on a ledge on the top right of this photo (obscured by the wall).

Close-up down the chimney.

View back up at the crux section.

Looking back at the Class 3/3+ downclimb.

Continuing up to Rainbow Peak, Class 2.

Rainbow Wall summit in the center.

Rainbow Peak summit. I couldn't get an angle without my shadow.

Mount Wilson view from the Rainbow Peak summit.

A view back toward the trees I mentioned earlier, now heading up to Rainbow Wall.

Slickrock to Rainbow Wall summit.

Rainbow Wall summit.

Looking down from Rainbow Wall summit into Pine Creek. Super sheer cliffs.
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