Climber type HBPW

The Weekend Warrior

Big weekend days at the home crag, volume first.

HomebodyBurstPyramidWeekend

What a Weekend Warrior is like

The week is for work; Saturday is for the crag, and it's the same crag. You get there early and climb until your skin's done, ticking everything in reach rather than one hard thing. Nobody has more sends per day. Your strength is volume and fitness; the trade is that the lines just above your grade stay projects for a long time, because there's always something else to tick first.

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The four traits behind the Weekend Warrior

Every climber type is four letters, one from each pair. The Weekend Warrior is HBPW: Homebody, Burst, Pyramid and Weekend.

Explorer Homebody

Burst Metronome

Pyramid Ceiling

Weekend 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.

Burst How your days fall: Burst, not Metronome

Your climbing comes in big days with gaps between them. When you get out you stay until your skin is done, and a quiet few weeks before the next one is normal.

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.

Weekend When you get out: Weekend, not Weekday

You climb when most people do: Saturdays and Sundays, around a working week. That means busier crags, shared pads and making the most of the days you get.

What the Weekend Warrior'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.
Burst: skin care for the day afterBig days end when the skin does. A salve the same evening is the difference between climbing again in three days and waiting a week.
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 Weekend Warrior

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

The Joyrider (EBPW)Explorer instead of Homebody. Out for the fun of it, somewhere new every weekend.
The Caretaker (HMPW)Metronome instead of Burst. Same crag every weekend, building it up a send at a time.
The Heavy Hitter (HBCW)Ceiling instead of Pyramid. Saturday at the home crag, straight to the hard stuff.
The Dirtbag (HBPD)Weekday instead of Weekend. At the home crag on a Tuesday, sending all day.