Creating your Gear List

Creating a gear list is an important step in planning for a trip. A good gear list allows you to organize your thoughts, understand your pack weight, and get feedback from others.

Get a scale!

It is strongly recommended you use a kitchen scale to weigh your gear. Having an accurate weight for each piece of gear will make the gear list musch more useful to you. Manufacturer-listed weights can often be innacurate!

Lighterpack

The best tool for creating your backpacking gear list is Lighterpack. You can arrange your items into categories and specify a weight and price. You can also mark worn and consumable items. It creates a chart and table to summarize the weight of your setup. You also get a shareable link that you can use for collaboration or getting feedback.

A lighterpack list is embedded below for example: