Is aid climbing hard Take it with you. In case you don't get it, it's supposed to be a joke! As in funny! So laugh, and stop taking it so s For example, trad climbing the Salathé Wall is an incredibly hard feat, as it has a grade of 5. Zodiac’s rating suggests moderately difficult aid, with 5. 9/10/11 C2, pretty moderate free climbing and easy aid. The use of other methods was termed “direct aid” climbing, or simply aid climbing. Feb 17, 2006 ยท Copperheads are a quintessential foundation of granite aid climbing, and my favorite modern-aid-climbing tool. . If you don’t like falling, treat every fixed head with suspicion. This is free resource by HowNOT2 that will help you get up big rocks. It is not physically easier than routine trad free climbing; quite the opposite. onunilmvzoltzgrwbdnvqncapgqwystopfookwuqlrcqstkvclwtjktzzecvcmmqkoqo