Climber type quiz / The Local

What a Local is like

Weekdays, home crag, a few sends each time. You're there more often than anyone, and you keep it that way: a steady pyramid of sends across the grades, no gaps in the season, no drama. You know the place in every condition. The hard lines come eventually, because you're always there when it's good. You don't travel much; why would you?

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The four traits behind the Local

Every climber type is four letters, one from each pair. The Local is HMPD: Homebody, Metronome, Pyramid and Weekday.

Homebody Where you climb: Homebody, not Explorer

Most of your climbing happens in one place. You know its problems, its conditions and its landings, and that depth is worth more to you than a longer list of places visited.

Metronome How your days fall: Metronome, not Burst

Your climbing is steady. Shorter sessions, few gaps, and a season that adds up a little at a time instead of resting on a handful of huge days.

Pyramid What you go for: Pyramid, not Ceiling

You climb across the grades. Plenty of problems well inside your limit, fewer near the top, and a wide base of sends underneath your hardest ones.

Weekday When you get out: Weekday, not Weekend

You get out midweek, when the crag or the gym is quiet. Empty landings, no queue for the classic, and conditions picked on your terms.

What the Local's kit has to handle

• Homebody: a brush that stays in the bagClimbing the same problems week after week means your own chalk builds up on the holds. Brushing after your session keeps the home circuit worth coming back to.
• Metronome: chalk bought by the bag, not the blockFrequent sessions get through chalk at a steady rate. Keeping a refill at home beats finding the bucket empty at the crag.
• Pyramid: a chalk ball for the long circuitA lot of problems in a day means a lot of chalking up. A ball puts down a thin, even coat without emptying the bucket by lunch.

Types close to the Local

Change one letter and you get a different climber. These four each share three traits with the Local.

• The Vagabond (EMPD)Explorer instead of Homebody. Climbing is the job: steady midweek mileage, crag to crag.
• The Dirtbag (HBPD)Burst instead of Metronome. At the home crag on a Tuesday, sending all day.
• The Sendsei (HMCD)Ceiling instead of Pyramid. Patient and precise on the hardest lines at home, midweek.
• The Caretaker (HMPW)Weekend instead of Weekday. Same crag every weekend, building it up a send at a time.

The Local's opposite

Flip all four letters and you get The Hotshot (EBCW): turns up on the weekend, finds the hardest line, leaves with it.

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