Aid climbing colorado

Looking to get into aid climbing.

Last weekend my buddy and i both led Sunshine kid, C1 at the Sunshine wall in the south platte (not listed in MP). I would like to get some more experience and smooth out our systems. In the near future i'd like to shoot for moonlight buttress.

Can anyone suggest some good beginner/intermediate routes in colorado that an aspiring aid climber could tackle?

any gear suggestions would also be helpful. i've currently got quad cams .1 - #4, some hooks (cliffhanger, grappling, talon), micro nuts, micro offset nuts, regular nuts and aiders, ascenders, fifi.

Thanks for the help!

Triple Exposure at the Garden of the Gods is good. Any continuous crack on a rainy day. The easier aid towers near Moab are a good stepping stone before doing a wall.

DMM aluminum offsets, tricams, offset aliens or similar small offset cams, and more cams in general are good. Ball nuts are really handy sometimes on thin cracks, and a few sawed angles and beaks for hand placing are nice.

country club crack on a snowy/rainy day is a good call

Please DO NOT aid anything on sandstone during a "rainy day." I truely hope an administrator would not suggest aiding anything in either GotG, or anything in Moab, during or even following the rain. I believe A Gram just ment 'a day while not free climbing,' not actually during precipitation.

Good luck with your aid climbing goals.

Triple Exposure is sweet and as good as it gets on the Front Range. Check raptor closures before driving down there though.

Andrew Gram wrote:Triple Exposure at the Garden of the Gods is good. Any continuous crack on a rainy day. The easier aid towers near Moab are a good stepping stone before doing a wall. DMM aluminum offsets, tricams, offset aliens or similar small offset cams, and more cams in general are good. Ball nuts are really handy sometimes on thin cracks, and a few sawed angles and beaks for hand placing are nice.

Aid climbers do NOT need to wait for a rainy day. Any day will suffice.

I should have been more clear, but I meant any continuous crack on granite during a rainy day. Aiding on sandstone during the rain is such a glaringly bad idea that it should be obvious not to do it, but mea culpa - I should have written more carefully.

Aid climbers don't have to wait for a rainy day, but if you want to go aid C1 cracks at Turkey Rocks on a nice day you are a jerk.

I fully agree with you, I was pretty sure of what you meant. Just didn't want it to get misunderstood down the lines.

Aiding a c1 crack at Indian Creek on a splitter day, have at it😉.