Free gear closet + loadout builder
Organize the gear you already own, build a complete loadout for a real trip, and see what it weighs — then remove what adds no value and carry what earns its place.
Free · Local-first · No account required · Imports LighterPack
12.4
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$2,031
The core product
A gear list tells you what exists. A loadout tells you what one specific trip costs to carry — base weight, worn weight, consumables, dollars — and what it taught you when you got back.
Tap 👕 to mark an item worn — watch base weight drop
The Outkitted Loop
The Outkitted Loop. Prepare: the Gear Closet builds the Loadout, and in parallel the Training Plan builds Readiness. Both converge into the field:
The Shakedown produces an Improved Loadout and Improved Readiness, and both feed the next cycle. Better every time around: lighter, more comfortable, safer, better conditioned, or better matched to the trip.
The featured Field Guide
Seven miles in to the valley below the Three Forks of the Conejos, four days of brookies and rainbows, three nights of weather — and the eight-and-a-half-foot glass rod that made the nine-footer dead weight.
The first flagship series
Backpacking sites treat a fly rod as dead weight; fishing sites assume you parked next to the river. The useful answers — which rod survives a pack lid, what a minimum fly kit actually weighs, whether the water is worth the detour — only exist where the two pursuits overlap.
Backcountry Fly is the first series, not the whole platform. Two gear systems sharing one pack is the hardest version of the loadout problem — which is exactly why it goes first. The closet supports every pursuit from day one.
Kevin — Field editor
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Latest from the Loop
Texas Hill Country fly fishing in July — where to wade, what to throw, when to beat the tubers, and the stripped-down kit that rides in a hip bag on a wader belt.
The smallest kit I own is the one I use every day. Item by item — knife, light, wallet, watch — and why each earns its pocket.
A camp-and-overland loadout built for a Hill Country creek weekend — where car camping stops being a compromise and starts being the point.
Seven miles in to the valley below the Three Forks of the Conejos, four days of brookies and rainbows, three nights of weather — and the eight-and-a-half-foot glass rod that made the nine-footer dead weight.
A pre-trip shakedown on the living-room floor — the near-misses in my backpacking loadout, what the scale said about each one, and the insurance-versus-fear test.
A repeatable method for shaking down your pack on the living-room floor — four questions, one scale, zero purchases.
Trip readiness
A trip has demands you can name — distance, elevation, pack weight, wading, consecutive days out. Readiness means preparing for those, not chasing a fitness number. The app turns a trip's demands into preparation areas to consider; the shakedown tells you how it went.
Prepare for a TripEvidence, labeled
Used on real, logged trips. Every number in this piece comes from the field.
Gear I own and use daily or around home — real ownership, honest impressions, but not yet proven on a logged trip.
Built from the closet, the scale, and the spec sheet — analysis and research, not field testing. The trip log for this item starts at zero.
A plan, not a report. The research and the kit are real; the trip hasn’t happened yet. The field report comes after the miles.
First-person notes from actually building Outkitted — the site and the app.
No paid ranking. No claim of field use without a trip behind it. The full editorial standards.
No account, no upload — the closet lives in your browser and imports your LighterPack list in one paste.
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