These are the bare, printable versions of the lists this book built with reasons attached. Each one names the chapter that explains it. Print the ones your trips use, laminate the ones your household fights about, and amend freely: a checklist that doesn't match your real kit is a rumor, not a system.
The first-campout kit (Chapters 2, 6)
Shelter
Sleep (per person)
Kitchen
Light/tools
Health
Personal
The seven-kit master audit (Chapter 6 )
Driveway rule: count kits, not items. Tent bag opened at home, every trip.
The backpacking kit (Chapters 11, 12, 17, 18)
Big three
Chapter 11 )
Kitchen
Water
Clothing
Ten Essentials pack (Chapter 12 )
Paper
Food: 1.5–2 lb/day/person at 100–125 cal/oz, packed as day-bags +1 margin day.
The kitchen crate standing inventory (Chapters 6, 15)
Rule: nothing returns to the house. Restock within a week of every trip.
Wounds
Blister
Meds
Tools
Paper
Car-kit adds: tourniquet + hemostatic gauze (with training).
Winter add-ons (Chapters 55, 56)
The pre-departure countdown (Chapters 28, 29)
Week out
Night before
Chapter 16 (pre-chill overnight)
Departure