Equipment

Ghiță publishes a Piatra Craiului activity that involves a via ferrata section. He marks rope, helmet, and harness as required equipment. Andrei wants to join but doesn't own a harness. Ana joins and notes she has a spare harness she can lend. Andrei borrows from Ana. Levente has an extra helmet that nobody needs but he marks it as available anyway. The equipment board shows everything green — every required item is covered.

That's the shape of the equipment system. Required items get declared or borrowed; nobody shows up without a harness because they assumed someone else would have one.

What equipment is for

Two things, really:

1. Making sure the trip is safe. If the activity needs specific gear (helmet, crampons, ice axe, life jacket), the organizer declares it required. Participants can't join without acknowledging it.
2. Sharing within the group. Some equipment isn't for everyone — one rope per group is enough. The board shows who's bringing what so the group as a whole is covered without everyone hauling the same thing.

On the activity

Open the activity, tap Equipment. The board has three sections:

• Required — items the organizer marked mandatory. Each item shows the count needed and the count covered.
• Recommended — items the organizer suggests but doesn't force.
• Optional / Offered — items participants offer to bring even though they're not required.

Each item shows its coverage status:

• Green — covered (declared by enough people).
• Yellow — partially covered (some declared, more needed).
• Red — uncovered.

If you can bring a required item, tap I'll bring this. The counter goes up.

If you need to borrow an item — Andrei's harness scenario — the Need flag tells the organizer and other participants that you're short on this thing. Someone with a spare can offer it to you.

As an organizer

When creating an activity, the equipment section lets you:

• Mark items as required or recommended.
• Set a count per item (one rope per group of 3, two helmets, etc.).
• Group items into categories (climbing, winter, water, camping).

After publishing, you can edit the equipment list from the activity edit screen. Adding items after participants have joined sends them a notification — they may need to react.

You can also verify equipment at check-in: a per-participant checklist on the activity day, used to confirm people actually brought what they declared.

Personal equipment inventory

Your personal gear lives in Profile > Equipment. This is your catalog — what you own, with notes (sizes, model, condition). It's used in two ways:

• When you join an activity that requires equipment, the join sheet pre-selects items from your inventory that match.
• Optionally, items can be marked public with a per-item toggle. Public items show up on your public profile so others can see what you typically carry.

Keeping your inventory updated saves time on the join sheet. It also helps you remember what you own — useful for the inevitable "I think I have a second sleeping pad somewhere" moment.

The public-toggle is per-item. By default, equipment is private. Mark items public selectively — your tent and helmet may be useful context for other participants; your toothbrush is not.

Borrowing within an activity

Andrei needs a harness. Ana has a spare. The flow:

1. Andrei marks Need on the harness item.
2. Ana sees the need on the board and taps Offer to lend, picking her spare harness from her inventory.
3. The organizer sees a match notification and confirms.
4. Andrei and Ana now have a small thread in Messages > Equipment to coordinate handover.
5. After the activity, both can mark the equipment as returned in good condition.

Borrowing is all peer-to-peer. Terranos doesn't take a deposit, doesn't hold money, doesn't insure equipment. The expectation is that the people doing the activity together know each other or are willing to trust each other.

For larger or higher-value gear (climbing rack, technical gear, etc.), the rental marketplace is in v2 — until then, peer borrowing is the mechanism.

Verification at check-in

On the day of the activity, the organizer can run through the participant list and tick off equipment items as verified. This is useful for trips with strict gear requirements (winter, alpine, technical).

The per-participant verification sheet shows what each person declared, with checkboxes per item. Tick what you saw, leave the rest. Items not verified before departure show up red on the participant's record — useful for retrospect if something went wrong.

When something looks off

• The board still shows red after I declared an item. The board reads the count of declarations vs the count required. If the organizer set "two ropes" and only you declared one, it stays yellow until a second person declares.
• My inventory item doesn't show up in the join sheet. The match is by item type, not by item name. If your "Mammut harness" doesn't match the activity's "Harness", check the type tag in your inventory item.
• I marked an item public but it's not on my profile. Public items show on your full public profile, not on the compact representation in cards. Open the profile page itself.
• Someone offered to lend me an item but I never got a thread. The thread opens after the organizer confirms the match. If the organizer hasn't confirmed yet, the offer is pending.
• I want to remove an item from my inventory but it's locked. Items currently declared on a future activity can't be removed until you withdraw the declaration first.