---
title: "Docs & help · Adventure Runner"
description: "Plan your first trip, prepare for the trail, use your assistant or find an answer about the app."
canonical: "https://www.trailready.run/docs/"
modified: 2026-10-05
reference_only: false
---

# Docs & help

Plan your first trip, prepare for the trail, use your assistant or find an answer about the app.

## Start here

Choose the guide that matches what you want to do. The browser planner works without an account; connected assistant features require an Adventure Runner account.



- [I want to plan my first trip](https://www.trailready.run/docs/getting-started/)
- [I want to plan with my assistant](https://www.trailready.run/docs/assistants/)
- [I have a UI or connection question](https://www.trailready.run/docs/troubleshooting/)

## From a route to a trip you can use

Follow this workflow in the browser planner, or ask your assistant to guide you through it.

1. Choose a reference route or import your own track.
2. Set your date, local start time, moving hours, stops and water refills.
3. Check trip-date weather, its refresh time and official access notices.
4. Prepare gear, permits, reservations, transport and emergency arrangements.
5. Export a PDF for the group, GPX for navigation and JSON as an editable backup. Download maps and test offline reopening before departure.

- [Start the walkthrough](https://www.trailready.run/docs/getting-started/)

## Where your plans live

Local trips stay in this browser. Sign-in saves account gear rules and enables assistant authorization; it does not sync your local trip library. Share a trip snapshot deliberately for assistant access. Approve proposed changes in Account, then save a local copy if you want to edit it in the browser planner.



- [Understand local trips and shared snapshots](https://www.trailready.run/docs/accounts/)

## Documentation topics

- [Your first trip](https://www.trailready.run/docs/getting-started/)
- [Routes, stops and timing](https://www.trailready.run/docs/planner/)
- [Weather and go/no-go review](https://www.trailready.run/docs/conditions/)
- [Gear and preparation checklists](https://www.trailready.run/docs/checklists/)
- [Share, PDF and GPX](https://www.trailready.run/docs/sharing/)
- [Accounts, preferences and local trips](https://www.trailready.run/docs/accounts/)
- [Plan with your assistant](https://www.trailready.run/docs/assistants/)
- [UI questions and troubleshooting](https://www.trailready.run/docs/troubleshooting/)

Canonical URL: https://www.trailready.run/docs/

Content updated: 2026-10-05. No reuse or training license is granted by this index; third-party materials retain their source terms.

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## Your plans, your choice

Plan as a guest. Trips stay in this browser unless you deliberately share or export them. Signing in lets you keep account preferences and review assistant proposals; it does not upload your local library.

Route references and planning estimates help preparation. Check current access, conditions, water and your group’s readiness before heading out. Keep an editable JSON backup of plans you want to retain.