Slab destinations in Colorado

Looking for some good slab routes up to 12a. South Platte seems to be the ticket but not sure where to go. Any recommendations for routes or areas? Within a couple hour drive from golden gets bonus points. Thanks a bunch.

Wigwam has some excellent ones - El Supremo is one of the best slab routes in the Platte IMO. Acid rock is good, and of course the mother of all Platte slab routes - Childhoods End on Big Rock. Go git some!!

Birds of Fire on Chiefshead is divine, so is Spear Me The Details on Spearhead.

Short stuff:
Bearcat Goes To Hollywood, and Castles Made of Sand are both fun, but the slab cruxes aren't particularly sustained. I haven't been on Pink Slip, but it's on my todo list.

Dream Dome has some nice slabs--second pitch of Journey to Ixtlan and the face left of Wrinkles in Time come to mind.

Also check out Upper Infirmary in South St. Vrain Canyon.

Bucksnort slab...

Already mentioned, but Big Rock is awesome.
SheepRock also holds great slab lines.

Haven't been on Wigwam but hear great things.
Have some great adventures!

There are granite domes with great slab all over the South Platte, from out of the way roadside distractions (Atlantis, Jazz, Java, Split Rock), to semi-obscure awesomeness like Big Rock Candy Mountain, to in between destinations like The Dome or Jackson Creek Dome. If you like slab, you will not have a hard time finding it in the Splatte. Expect bolted, pure friction climbs with generally far apart bolts. Semi-frequent R routes and occasional X routes are out there, and most (?) Splatte slab is not consequence-free falling.

I've even climbed nice slab at Devil's Head and Thunder Ridge.

And of course, there's the very different (easy, runout) slab of the Flatirons in Boulder.

Hells gate slab on Hagerman pass.

The domes in splatte are amazing. My mind is blown that there is such thing as 12a slab. :o

Fascist Drill in The West - up at Lumpy, on the Book, is awesome!

Also check out Vedauwoo. It's known for cracks, of course, but it also has very good slab routes with real old school slab ratings. Try Lower Fall Wall for a sample

Combat Rock in the Big Thompson Canyon has a number of good slab routes.

All these are great suggestions. A couple more: Wander over to the Sun and the Moon when on Wigwam. Two Jews Blues is a great route as well, bolted in a more modern style, Little Scraggy. Panic in the Gray Room (Infirmary) is a classic pitch, too.

The second pitch of Tales of Power, right next to Journey to Ixtlan, is a very nice slab pitch.

platte is great but dream canyon also has some lovely high angle slabs on perfect granite

The second pitch of Earth Voyage in Dream Canyon has some amazing and pretty hard slab on it! One of the best routes in BoCan IMO

Mr Mantle in Cathedral Spires, the Platte. Fierce 12a crux then a long stretch of 11

My mind can't even fathom what climbing 12a slab would be like, but if I could climb it I would do Childhood's End on Big Rock Candy Mountain.

The Goose Creek/Molly Gulch/Sheeprock area has some cool slabs too in a nice setting: mountainproject.com/v/goose…

Jon, the 12a crux is not slab. It's thin face climbing, with a bit of lie-backing corner and crack, and can be aided through.

If you (or your partner) can cruise through runout 8/9 slab, and climb 10/11 moves, then I recommend getting on this route.

I know it's not Colorado, but I'll post this video of Beth Rodden sending Kauk Slab (V7/8, or 13a/b) in Camp 4 to get the stoke going.

vimeo.com/32117058

Yeah, it's hard.

Want some hard slabs with no crowds (as if any hard slabs are crowded)?
Try the SSV... there are quite a few slightly off vert.
I guess it depends on your definition of slab though... in Red River, anything overhanging < 5deg was a slab. I always thought it was anything where the rock was greater than elbow's distance from you at the shoulder when standing on two feet.
YMMV.

Nice, doak.

Slab is not my very favorite, but I've climbed more of it than most. I like how it's very pure: just concentration, balance, and technique.

I'm going to have to aid through the hard section of Childhoods End, then! Awesome.

Jon Banks wrote:My mind can't even fathom what climbing 12a slab would be like, but if I could climb it I would do Childhood's End on Big Rock Candy Mountain. The Goose Creek/Molly Gulch/Sheeprock area has some cool slabs too in a nice setting: mountainproject.com/v/goose…