Use resupply points

Use resupply points when your route includes a place where you will pick up more food before continuing.

Resupplies help TRIPS model starting food weight, pack weight, and day-level load more realistically for long-distance trips.

Before you start

• Upload a GPX route.
• Add campsites if you already know your likely day boundaries.
• Enter a realistic food consumption rate in the Plan panel.

Resupplies currently model food only. They do not model fuel, water, batteries, or other consumables.

Add a resupply point

1. On the map, open the Segmentation control.
2. Choose Resupplies.
3. Click the route where the resupply happens.
4. Open the Plan panel and expand Resupplies.
5. Edit the resupply name, distance, and carry timing if needed.

Check that the resupply marker appears on the route and that the resupply appears in the Resupplies card.

Choose the right carry timing

TRIPS has two carry timing options.

Carry now means the food is loaded at the resupply point and immediately counts as carried pack weight.

Use Carry now for:

• a mid-day food pickup
• a wilderness food cache
• a resupply where you keep carrying the food while staying nearby

Carry on departure means the food for the next leg does not count as carried until you leave that stop.

Use Carry on departure for:

• a town resupply
• a zero day in town
• a campsite or town stop where you eat local or non-carried food before leaving

Carry on departure is only available when the resupply is exactly aligned with a campsite.

Align a resupply with a campsite

If a resupply should happen at the same place as a campsite, drag the resupply marker near the campsite marker.

When TRIPS snaps the resupply to the campsite:

• the map shows a combined campsite/resupply marker
• the campsite card shows a Resupply badge
• the resupply can use Carry on departure
• dragging the combined marker moves both the campsite and the resupply together

If the resupply and campsite should be separate, use the remove links on the combined cards to remove only the campsite or only the resupply.

Understand town zero days

If you resupply in town and take a zero day, use a campsite with more than one night and set the resupply to Carry on departure.

This tells TRIPS:

• food eaten during the town zero day is not treated as carried food
• next-leg food starts counting when you leave town
• pack weight for the zero day does not include the next leg’s food

This is different from a wilderness food cache. For a wilderness cache or basecamp-style stop, use Carry now if the food should count as carried during the layover.

What changes after adding resupplies

After you add resupply points, TRIPS recalculates:

• starting food weight
• day start and day end pack weight
• load and fatigue-related outputs that depend on carried weight
• resupply events shown in the itinerary and day details

Starting food weight becomes the food needed until the first resupply, not the food needed for the whole trip.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Do not use Carry on departure for a mid-day resupply. Mid-day resupplies should normally use Carry now.
• Do not expect carry on departure unless the resupply is aligned with a campsite.
• Do not use a resupply point for water or fuel yet. The current resupply feature is food-only.
• Do not leave resupply mode on after placing resupplies if you are done editing them.

What to do next

Review the day cards after adding resupplies. Check whether pack start weight, pack end weight, hiking time, and load signals now match the trip you expect to hike.