Outdoor Kit Plan it · pack it
Cards 89
TrailReady
Two halves of the same problem. The guide gets you out the door with the right things on your back. The deck means you know what to do when the day stops going to plan.
Part one — before you go
The Layering Guide
Base / mid / shell explained once, so you can build a clothing list for any trip from the forecast alone.
5 Trip-Type Chapters
Day hike, overnight backpacking, car camping, cold-weather and wet-weather — each with what to wear, a tap-to-check packing list, a quick recipe, and what to do when caught without the right layer.
Conditions Helper
A working spreadsheet. Pick your trip type and the weather; it returns the layering list.
Part two — when it goes wrong
52 core cards
Quick hacks, smart shortcuts, survival skills, emergency response and multi-use kit.
37 expansion cards
Safety & planning, camp cooking, a seven-day skills challenge, and ten scenario cards.
The deck guide
Five ways to play, how to read a card, printing instructions, and where the deck's limits are.
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Part two:
nine colours, one job each
Colour tells you what kind of card you're holding before you read a word of it.
Quick Hacks
Clever fixes from what you already have on you.
Smart Shortcuts
Small habits that save weight, fuel and time.
Survival Skills
Navigation, water, shelter, fire, being found.
Emergency Response
What to do first, and when to call for help.
Multi-Use Items
One object, many jobs.
Safety & Planning
The decisions made before you leave the house.
Camp Cooking
Real food, one pot or a sheet of foil.
7-Day Challenge
One skill a day in the week before a trip.
Hard Choices
Scenarios with no comfortable answer.
Five ways to play the deck
Two players or ten. No board, no timer, no setup.
Survival Challenge
Draw three. Explain how you'd handle one, out loud, in under a minute.
Race The Clock
Two teams, one card, same start. First working shelter, fire or filter wins.
Priority Sort
Rank five cards by what you'd deal with first — then change the setting and watch the order change.
Do It Blind
Read only the title. Try the skill before you read the steps.
Hard Choices
Everyone commits to A, B or C out loud before anyone reads the answer.
There are free packing
lists. All over the internet.
So here is an honest account of what this does that they don't.
It has nothing to sell you
A retailer's packing list is marketing. Every line links to a product, and the more you pack the better they do. This one has no gear to sell, so it can tell you your existing jacket is probably fine, that dry socks beat a better shell, and to re-proof what you own instead of replacing it.
It works with no signal
A web page needs a connection and a charged phone. Printed cards in a pocket need neither. The moment you actually want the emergency material is the moment you are least likely to have bars.
It is a tool, not a printout
Go and open one of the big retailers' free checklist PDFs and try to tick a box. You can't — they are print-only images, so tracking your packing means a printer and a pen. Ours are real PDF checkboxes you tick on screen and save. The Conditions Helper is a working spreadsheet — pick the trip type and the weather, get the layering list back. You can read a free article; you cannot fill one in.
You cannot hand out a web page
Round a fire, with a scout group, or as a gift, a deck of cards does something a browser tab cannot. Five ways to play, a seven-day challenge, and ten scenario cards — that format does not exist for free anywhere we have found.
And the other side of it: if a free checklist is all you need, use the free checklist. Plenty of people are already packing well and just wanted a reminder, and we would rather say that than pretend otherwise. This is for the person who wants the whole thing in one place, offline, without a gear catalogue attached — and who wants the second half, for the day the packing was not the problem.
Why the two halves belong together
Packing well is what stops most problems from starting. Knowing what to do is what stops the remaining ones from getting worse. Sold separately they each leave a gap: a perfect packing list does nothing for you at the moment something goes wrong, and a survival deck does not stop you arriving cold and wet in the first place.
Who this is for
Beginners and families heading somewhere fairly normal — a campsite, a marked trail, a weekend in the hills. Scout groups and youth leaders who want something to do round a fire that isn't a lecture. If you already teach this for a living, you don't need it.
What it isn't
It isn't a wilderness medicine manual and it isn't a substitute for a first aid course — the emergency cards are memory aids for people who have been taught this material, not a way to learn it cold. It also deliberately doesn't teach you to identify wild plants or mushrooms: deadly and edible species look alike, field tests don't reliably work, and a healthy adult can go a long time without food. That card tells you to leave it alone, and explains why.
A note on fire and local rules
Several cards involve flame. Fire rules vary enormously by region and season, and in many places open fires are banned outright for part of the year. Check before you light anything.