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Gwynedd > Rainbow Walls >

The Mau Mau

E4 6a

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22m. Climb the bow shaped crack. Now the hard bit - step back left to go up the remainder of the crack to finally get to good holds.
P Williams 20/May/1986

Ticklists: North Wales Rock Graded List, Trad climbs for sport climbers, a State of Slate.

Photo: Sea of Slate © mr mills
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PUBLIC LOGBOOKS

This climb is in 146 logbooks, and on 46 wishlists.

tim newton - Lead O/S - 15/Jun/13 with stuart lade

Simon Allcock - 2nd O/S - 30/May/13 with Mary, Wilki

mes32 - 2nd - 29/May/13 with Simon Allcock, Wilki

Hidden - Lead O/S - 26/May/13

Thought this was E3 5c when I led it felt much harder today!
Dangerous Dave - 2nd rpt - 23/May/13 with Russ Birkett

Not sure if this is E4.... very well protected, just a building pump.
andyinglis - Lead O/S - 23/May/13 with Dave Ogden

Russell Birkett - Lead O/S - 23/May/13 with Dave Cowan

miastacey - Lead O/S - 04/May/13 with Bob Smith

dswansonlow - Lead dog - 30/Apr/13 with Darren McMaster

shed_hed - 2nd O/S - 30/Apr/13 with Dougie Swanson-Low

Hidden - Lead - 2013

soph - Lead - 23/Sep/12 with Ben Tibbetts, jon morgan

Awesome route, very slippery moves, nervous about pigging off near the top.
Ed morris - Lead O/S - 11/Sep/12 with Andy

Good lead. What will he be capable of when he gets psyched? ; )
Ed Babs - 2nd β - 04/Sep/12 with Iain Moodie

Hidden - Lead O/S - 04/Sep/12

Dibdawg - Lead dog - 01/Sep/12 with Dean Merchant

Mega!!
Bennykr - Lead O/S - 20/Aug/12 with Alex mason

After blowing it on the lead, i managed it on second, one to come back too.
Dean177 - 2nd RP - Aug/12 with Alan Dibben

Dean177 - Lead dnf - Aug/12 with Alan Dibben

ksjs - 2nd rpt - 22/Jul/12 with owen

Hidden - Lead β - 07/Jul/12

stonemonkey159 - Lead O/S - 12/Jun/12

Tom Briggs - Jagged Globe - Lead O/S - 05/May/12 with Andy Benson

Lovely. Not any harder than Stroll On or Quasar(E3 6a), but without the 6a. E3 5c.
zero six - Lead O/S - May/12

Owain Llewelyn - Lead O/S - 19/Apr/12 with Gareth E

Found it hard to commit, cams in slate scare me. Go back!
conorcussell - Lead dnf - 21/Mar/12

NickHarms - 2012

Hidden - 2012

AndrewJamesCherry - 2nd - 2012

Heather had a go and lowered off from halfway then I raced up it before it got dark. A rock 5 is now possibly in-situ just after the resting ledge...
jacobjacob - Lead O/S - 20/Nov/11

Hidden - Lead dog - 28/Oct/11

Luke Brooks - 2nd - 03/Aug/11 with Steve

Jenny Crook - 2nd dog - 31/Jul/11 with Rob Patchett

First E4 !
Alroy - Lead O/S - 24/Jul/11 with ben peake

Eetu - Lead O/S - 30/Jun/11 with Olli

HIGHTOWER - 2nd - 25/Jun/11 with Dylan Williams, Andy Woolston

williamsd79 - 2nd dog - 25/Jun/11 with Mark Freestone, Andy Woolston

awesome route.
centurion05 - Lead rpt - 25/Jun/11

Good route but E3 5c
Dangerous Dave - Lead O/S - 01/Jun/11 with Wild Beast

Tom Livingstone - Lead β - 01/Jun/11 with Heather

On my own gear this time. felt harder even though i found the crimps this time.
willoates - Lead rpt - 25/May/11 with Dan Butler

harder for short and if you have sausage fingers too then good luck. took a fall onto a half-in small insitu cam which held.
dan ely - Lead dog - 12/Apr/11 with greg kane, jason

barni - 2nd rpt - 21/Mar/11 with Liam fleming

clean hooray
offroute - Lead - 21/Mar/11 with barni

cold, 2 rests
ksjs - TR dog - 20/Feb/11 with Matt

Marti999 - TR O/S - 18/Feb/11 with Dave

Rory Shaw - 2011

Hidden - 2011

So close! This went well till I barn-doored off the top crack after missing the holds out left. Nasty upside down fall with my leg behind the rope. Pretty sure if I'd seen the holds it would have been in the bag. Gutted. Thanks to the chaps who gave me a tope rope to finish it off!
petellis - Lead dog - 16/Oct/10 with Cleric James Koran

ian caton - Lead O/S - 11/Oct/10 with Abi

mux - Lead O/S - 22/Aug/10 with frost

frost - 2nd β - 22/Aug/10 with D Garry

gforce - Lead - 18/Aug/10 with Kath

first e4, got to go and onsight one now...
david morse - Lead rpt - 13/Jul/10 with owain

lead it after david on his gear, although bi think i could have placed it my self, got to go back and find out now.
willoates - Lead β - 13/Jul/10 with david morse

Hidden - 2nd dog - 07/Jul/10

Hidden - Lead dnf - 05/Jul/10

akhughes - 2nd O/S - 23/Jun/10 with Jonnie Stocking

Bristoldave - Lead O/S - 16/Jun/10 with LukeW

was really nice climbing on good holds. low E4/E3
samrad - Lead O/S - 10/Jun/10 with james G

Used motly Sam's gear. Great climb. Glad to get it done. Much easier this time as I didn't try and layback the whole top section. Brilliant!
farmus21 - Lead RP - 10/Jun/10 with Sam Radcliffe

luke1986 - 2nd O/S - Jun/10

harvie - Lead - 31/May/10

morganator - Lead O/S - 28/May/10 with Ross Hewitt, Andy Houseman

RachelP - 2nd - 20/May/10 with Geth, Jamie

barni - 2nd rpt - 17/May/10 with luke, Sam

Luke Brooks - Lead O/S - 17/May/10 with Barni

Hidden - Lead O/S - 15/May/10

Hidden - Lead dog - 12/May/10

Pleased to get up this as a warm up - thought it would be despearte to repeat - can't be going that bad then Matt!
mattyork2 - TR - 03/May/10 with John Vincent

Hidden - Lead O/S - May/10

Hidden - Lead rpt - 07/Feb/10

vinspin - 2nd dnf - 2010 with owen jones

Jus - Lead O/S - 24/Sep/09 with Will Boxen

offroute - 2nd - 05/Aug/09 with glyn

Glyn - Lead O/S - 24/Jul/09 with Liam Fleming

Ows - 2nd - Jul/09

nige - Lead O/S - 10/Apr/09 with ewan mccallum

benchwarmer - 2nd dog - 10/Apr/09 with Owen Barnicott

barni - Lead rpt - 05/Apr/09 with Ewan

Mike Goldthorp - Lead O/S - 24/Mar/09 with Ben Alsford

lukehunt - Lead O/S - 27/Feb/09 with Tom Ripley

hans solo - Jan/09

stevebarratt - Lead O/S - 2009 with Dave Morse

A great last trad route to seal up the year. Fantastic, somewhat technical climbing I thought. 600th route! A really nice day out too.
mattyork2 - Lead O/S - 14/Dec/08 with Ally Smith and Emily Goodman

Hidden - 2nd - 14/Dec/08

rained off / wimped off upper crack.
lukea - Lead dnf - 27/Oct/08 with felix

Previously 2nded on 13.05.08
Brown - Lead β - 13/Sep/08 with Henry

centurion05 - Lead O/S - 25/Jul/08 with woody

Hidden - Lead dog - 21/Jul/08

Sgt. Vest - Lead O/S - 06/Jun/08 with sophie wilmes

sonnenstern - 2nd O/S - 06/Jun/08 with Will Malcolm

Hidden - Lead O/S - 06/Jun/08

kieranrex - Lead O/S - 19/May/08

barni - Lead - 22/Apr/08 with Si

Hidden - Lead - Feb/08

good gear, classic crack climb.
mr mills - Lead rpt - Feb/08 with ioan d

jeffmcd56 - Lead β - 2008 with Rob

Belier - Lead O/S - 09/Sep/07 with reeve

awesome route, comes at you at just when you think you cant go any further theres huge jugs out on the wall!! tricky moves leaving the ledge.
Alex Mason - Lead O/S - 04/Sep/07 with Thomas Martin

Hidden - TR dog - 27/Aug/07

First E4! Not as gnarly as i expected and there is a decent rest on the top bit to put in gear.
Morgan Woods - Lead O/S - 26/Aug/07 with Gareth

soft
IOAN D - Lead O/S - 19/Jun/07 with gareth

that was an effort! totally brilliant, bit of an arm-melter peering into the crack to place gear (friends a definite advantage here but you can get great large nuts in). loved the bit where i wanted to stop but couldnt as that would have meant a fall so i had no choice but to continue :) perfect trad!
ksjs - Lead O/S - 03/Jun/07 with goosebump

Toby Dunn - Lead O/S - 21/Apr/07 with Joe Bawden

Dringo - 2007

doable first section then it gets hard well hard!
fran04 - TR - 2007 with ian rowell

Bern - Jun/06

onsight
lx - Lead O/S - May/06

Hidden - 2006

Ian McNeill - 2006

Easiest E4 slate tick around
nicholas Barrowclough - 2nd - 07/Jul/04 with Mark

Gus - Lead O/S - 20/Jun/04

mark s - Lead O/S - 2004 with andi

spidey - Lead O/S - 14/Aug/03

Hidden - Lead RP - 2003