Tumbling Rainbow, Joshua Tree

[RussWalling]

right here:

http://widefetish.com/routes/tumbling/tumbling.html

[Moof]

Last I saw it was rated 5.9R OW, haven't checked the new guidebook  I found the rating more scary than justified, as the 5.9 is not in the OW, and the R is invalid with modern big cams, and the OW was mostly straight forward face climbing with the left, and while wide, the right was barely doing wide stuff.

A great route who's rating is a bit overblown (rare for Jtree).

[Will]

On the gear beta part:

I don't think you could actually get a #6 in there it was just ballast for me, certainly not in the top section where a #5 friend was even too tight. And in the widest part of the bottom section it's mostly hands to fist in the back. For someone at their limit probably a nut or 1" cam and #1 to #4 camalot with doubles in the 2 to 4.

Climbing is really fun on it. Definitely not "R", you can sew it up from bottom to top with nothing bigger than a 4 camalot.

[RussWalling]

Fixed up the gear beta... thanks Will.... as you recall, it was dark when I did it

[wideload]

In the latest Vogel guide, it gets simply 5.9 and suggests pro to 4"