Yukon Gold

Provisioning a trip is arithmetic nobody wants to do by torchlight the night before departure. This planner does it for you. Tell it how long you will be out, how many people are coming and how hard you intend to travel, and it turns those three numbers into a day-by-day meal plan and a complete provisions ledger with real quantities attached. It starts on the setup screen. Trip length, party size and activity pace — a gentle valley walk and a long-haul slog up a river drainage eat very differently, and the pace setting is what tells the planner which of the two you are packing for. From there the plan screen fills itself in: a meal rotation laid out per day, so you can see what gets eaten on the fourth morning rather than guessing, and alongside it the figures that actually go in the pack. Food weight. Water. Fuel. Every line in the ledger stays editable. The planner's numbers are a starting point, not a verdict — if your group has a reliable stream at the midpoint, or someone refuses to travel without extra coffee, change the line and the ledger carries the change forward. What it will not do is let a shortfall slip past unnoticed. Any line that drops below the ration norm is flagged in burgundy, so an under-filled fuel bottle or a thin water allowance stands out at a glance instead of becoming a problem on day three. When the plan is settled, it goes into a ledger of saved trips. That turns last autumn's four-day outing into the foundation of this spring's five-day one: open it, adjust the length or the party, and you are most of the way to a finished plan. Over a few seasons the saved trips become a quiet record of what your group genuinely gets through, which is far more useful than any generic table of recommended rations. Packing is the last stage, and it has its own screen. Everything on the provisions list becomes a tick-box, with a running packed total at the top, so you can work down the pile and know exactly how much remains rather than counting items over and over. Tick off the fuel, tick off the rice, watch the total climb, and close the bag knowing nothing was left on the kitchen floor. It suits weekend hikers, canoe trips, hunting camps, bikepacking and any group outing where the food has to be carried rather than bought along the way. The planner handles the measuring and the maths; you handle the route.

Yukon Frontier