Free · No paywall · Built by a hiker who codes
Pack right for every trip — without the guesswork.
Build your gear closet once. Tell DialedPack the trip, and it builds your full packing list from the gear you own — with the things that are different this time (the cold snap, the ice, the river crossing) pulled right to the top.
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Your pack list changes every single trip.
Solo and ultralight one weekend, the whole family the next. Bone-dry and 100°F in the canyon, then a 50% chance of rain up on the rim. The little gotchas — not enough electrolytes for an all-day Grand Canyon push, no shell when the storm finally rolls in, down to your last few electrolyte tabs — are what quietly turn a great trip into a grind. A static gear spreadsheet can't see a single one of them.
Builds the whole list from your gear
Tell it the trip and it assembles a complete, trip-ready packing list out of the gear you already own — not a generic checklist you have to translate every time.
Tuned to the conditions
Weather, season, distance, elevation, and who's coming reshape the list. What's different this time — swap the shorts for a fleece, add traction for ice — gets called out up top.
Catches what you don't own yet
Heading somewhere that needs gear you don't have — crampons for an icy trail, a warmer bag for the high country? DialedPack flags the gap so it isn't a nasty surprise at the trailhead.
“I'm going solo to the Grand Canyon this weekend.”
You get the whole packing list, built from your own gear — with the conditions-driven changes up top, so the easy-to-miss stuff (today, the ice) is the first thing you see. And when it says “get,” it's a real gap for this trip — something you actually need, not an ad.
Built by someone who's actually out there.
I'm Jacob — a programmer who spends every weekend he can on the trail. I've ground my way up Cactus to Clouds (one of the brutal big ones), crawled along the exposed Nankoweap Trail far below the Grand Canyon's rim, spent cold nights in the Mazatzal Wilderness and dragged my kids out for their first trips under the stars. I've made the bad gear calls myself — that's exactly why I'm building DialedPack.
A decade of trip reports lives at blog.jacobemerick.com if you want to know whose judgment is baked into this.
The stuff you're wondering
Is this another subscription?
No. The core planner is free, full stop. If it ever recommends gear, that's a real gap for your actual trip — and if you buy through the link, a retailer kicks us a small commission. You're never paying to use it, and we're never showing you something you don't need.
Do I have to re-enter my gear every time?
Nope — you build your closet once. Each trip just runs your existing kit against that trip's conditions. Solo ultralight or the whole family: same closet, different answer.
What do I actually get out of it?
A complete, trip-specific packing list built from your own gear — with the conditions-driven changes (a swap for the cold, traction for ice, a gap you need to fill) pulled to the top so the easy-to-miss stuff is front and center. Not a generic checklist; your list, for this trip.
Who's building this?
Jacob — a backpacker and web programmer who got tired of repacking from scratch for every kind of trip. You can read a decade of trip reports at blog.jacobemerick.com. Early days — the waitlist gets first access and helps shape it.