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Plan Your Outdoor Trip
Keep trip dates, duration, meal planning, and packing decisions together for a hiking, backpacking, or camping outing.
Your Gear's Best
Dear Friend
Organize your gear with the grace of a woodland deer. Plan trips, track equipment, and pack smart for every outdoor adventure that's dear to your heart.
Know what you own Plan the whole trip Learn as you go
Made for the in-between
From the first gear list to the last trail mile.
GearDeer is for hikers, backpackers, and campers—from first-timers to experienced outdoor people preparing a multi-day trip. Keep the details that are easy to forget in one calm place: the weight of your shelter, what still needs replacing, and which meals fit your plan.
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Build Your Gear List
Organize the gear you own with categories, individual weights, condition, and notes.
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Know Your Pack Weight
Use item weights to understand how your base gear and trip consumables add up before you leave.
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Plan Smarter
Connect your gear, checklists, food plans, and wishlist instead of piecing trip details together from separate notes.
Start with a number
Know Your Pack Weight
Use the calculator to see how base gear adds up separately from food, water, and fuel.
Open the full calculatorFree trail tool
Backpack weight calculator
Add your kit by category. Blank fields count as zero, and you can change units at any time.
Base weight includes your gear before food, water, and fuel. Actual trip weight changes with your route and resupply plan.
The field notes
Useful advice, without the fuss.
Planning / 7 min readHow to Plan a Backpacking TripPlan a backpacking trip from route research to food, water, gear, and a practical pre-departure check.Read the guide Packing / 8 min readThe Complete Backpacking Packing ListA practical backpacking packing list organized by function, with advice on tailoring it to your route and conditions.Read the guide Pack weight / 7 min readHow Much Should Your Backpack Weigh?Understand what a backpack weighs on the trail, how base weight differs from total weight, and how to assess your own load.Read the guide
A simpler trailhead
Your next trip starts here.
Bring your kit out of your head and into a plan you can use.