What are the gear shed and the duffel bag?

The gear shed is the list of gear you own, kept in your account, and a duffel is what you pack for one trip. Together they turn a mountain's gear list into your own shopping list and your own packing list. Both come with a free account, and both are private.

The gear shed

Your gear shed holds every piece of gear you own, filed by type, with the brand and model, and for a sleeping bag its comfort rating. The quickest way to fill it is from a gear list: tick "I have this" on the Kilimanjaro gear list, or any other mountain's, and the item lands in your shed. Weigh an item once and it weighs that in every duffel.

For each of the eight mountains the shed shows what you already have and what is still missing, and the missing part is your shopping list. Renting something there, or the operator supplies it? Set that line aside as "not for me" and it drops off the list. Each mountain's list prints as a checklist.

The gear tracker

The tracker is switched off until you turn it on. Then each item gets a place: the basement, the gear closet, ordered, or lent to a friend with their name, so it comes back. The places are yours to rename or add to.

The duffel bag

A duffel is the bag for one trip. Start it from a mountain's gear list and it copies that list once, filled from your shed wherever you own the item, or start an empty one for any other trip. For each item you choose how it gets there: you have it, you will buy, borrow or rent it there, the operator provides it, or it stays at home. Tick items off as you pack, and the bag adds up its weight. An item you have not weighed yet is shown as missing a weight, never counted as nothing.

When the trip is over, save the duffel. A saved duffel is kept as it was and can be restarted as a fresh copy for the next climb.

Free and paid

A free account has one active duffel with one bag, and as many saved duffels as you like. Expedition and Summit Circle add several active duffels at once and several named bags in one trip, such as a base camp bag, a high camp bag and a carry-on, each with its own weight limit. When a paid plan ends you keep every duffel and every bag. What each plan adds is in What do the membership tiers add?

Private

Your shed and your duffels are yours alone: other members do not see them, and neither do we. Who can see my gear shed? explains.