Destination
One Belt, One River: The Plan for a Summer Day on the Guadalupe
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.
Founder & Editor
Kevin
The compliance guy with too much gear — owns the closet, the voice, and the publish button.
Outkitted started in an overstuffed closet. By day Kevin works in compliance — the person who reads the whole thing and notices when the numbers don’t add up. Pointed at a gear closet, that habit produced one honest question: what do I actually own, what does it weigh, and what does it cost me every time it leaves the house?
The answer became the Outkitted app — one local-first closet, every pursuit, a loadout for every trip — and then the writing that goes with it. Every post carries a transparency label that says exactly how its claims were earned, and no post may claim field use that hasn’t happened. As trips get logged, pieces graduate: a Trip Plan becomes a Field Report, and the label changes with it.
Kevin reviews and publishes everything that runs on Outkitted. Questions, corrections, or a shakedown request: hello@outkitted.com.
How They Approach Gear
Less gear that does more. One closet feeds every pursuit, every ounce and dollar gets counted, and cost-per-use decides what stays. The most dangerous gear isn't the stuff you never touch — it's the stuff you'd touch just enough to justify carrying it forever.
- Comfort vs. weight
- Weight first, comfort earned — a luxury item has to justify every mile it rides, not just the ninety minutes it gets used.
- Preferred shelter
- Trekking-pole tent (a Durston X-Mid 1 holds the shelter slot in the closet).
- Typical trip length
- Day trips to four nights.
- Climate / region
- Texas Hill Country home water; Southern Rockies trips.
- Style
- Plans on paper, shakedowns on the living-room floor, kitchen-scale honesty.
- Experience
- Building the trip log in public — posts carry transparency labels, and nothing claims field use that hasn't happened.
Training Context
Personal Experience
The body is the first item in every loadout — the one piece of gear on every single trip. Preparation here means training in service of the pursuits: carrying the pack, wading the current, recovering for tomorrow. Capability, not competition.
Credentials: No fitness, medical, or coaching credentials. Everything training-related under this byline is personal experience and careful homework, labeled as exactly that — and reviewed against the editorial standards before it runs.
Disclosure: Every gear link on Outkitted is a plain manufacturer link — no affiliate codes, no commissions, no sponsorships. If that ever changes, this disclosure changes first, loudly, on the same day.
Field notes & stories
Field Note
The Pocket Loadout, No. 1: What's Actually in My Pockets
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.
Field Note
The Four Things That Almost Made My San Juan Loadout
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.
Field Note
The Truck Camp Kit: Building for Two Nights and One Tailgate
A camp-and-overland loadout built for a Hill Country creek weekend — where car camping stops being a compromise and starts being the point.
Skill
The Real Cost-Per-Ounce of My Fly Rod Collection
I ran the dollars-per-ounce math on every fly rod and reel I own. The results are funny, a little painful, and weirdly useful.
Field Note
Building Outkitted, Week 6: One Closet, Three Surfaces
A non-technical founder's honest notes on building a gear app, a blog, and a review site as one thing — and why there's no signup wall.