3 Ways to Organize Your Overland Gear With MOLLE This Fall

Practical ways to use MOLLE to organize your gear, make better use of your truck bed, and stay ready for fall adventures.

Fall changes the way you pack for an overland trip. Cooler temperatures, changing weather, shorter days, and longer nights can mean bringing gear you may not have needed during the summer.

Before your next fall adventure, take a few minutes to rethink how your gear is organized and accessed. A MOLLE setup gives you a flexible, modular way to make better use of available space, keep essential equipment within reach, and adapt your setup as your gear and adventures change. 

#1. Make Room for Seasonal Gear

Fall trips often call for extra layers, rain gear, blankets, gloves, recovery equipment, and other weather-ready essentials.

Instead of letting seasonal gear take over your available cargo space, use MOLLE mounting locations to move smaller equipment off the floor and onto vertical surfaces.

A three-day fall trip can fill a truck bed quickly. A cooler, recovery boards, camp stove, sleeping gear, and other larger items may already take up most of the available space. Smaller essentials like gloves, recovery straps, tire tools, and first-aid supplies don’t necessarily need to compete for that same floor space. Mounting them to a MOLLE panel keeps them organized and leaves the bed floor open for larger equipment. 

Pro tip: Before your trip plan your gear out, identify the gear you’re adding specifically for fall and decide where each item will go before you start packing.

#2. Organize by Frequency of Use

Shorter days and seasonal conditions can make accessibility more important on fall trips. Gloves, tools, recovery equipment, emergency gear, and other frequently used items shouldn’t have to be mixed in with everything else you’re carrying.

Use your MOLLE setup to give frequently accessed equipment a dedicated location where you can reach it without unloading your truck.

Imagine pulling off the trail and realizing you need a pair of gloves and a recovery strap. If they’re buried in a storage bin underneath your camping gear, getting to them can mean moving half the truck. With a dedicated spot on a MOLLE panel, those items are right where you expect them to be. Grab what you need, use it, and put it back without disturbing the rest of your setup. 

Pro tip: “First order of retrievability” or keep the gear you need most within reach . The gear you reach for most should be the easiest to access.

#3. Reconfigure Your Setup for the Season

Your overland setup doesn’t have to look the same for every trip.

Summer camping gear may not be the priority when temperatures drop. Fall can shift your focus toward weather protection, recovery equipment, warmer clothing, and gear for changing trail conditions.

A modular MOLLE setup makes it easier to move equipment around as your needs change.

The gear that makes sense for summer doesn’t necessarily make sense for a fall trip. As temperatures drop, you might swap cooking or warm-weather equipment for rain gear, extra layers, gloves, recovery equipment, or other seasonal essentials. Your MOLLE panel stays put while the gear and its mounting locations change to match the trip. 

Before heading out, take inventory of what you’re actually bringing and adjust your mounting locations accordingly.

Pro tip: Don’t fill every available mounting point. Leave some flexibility so you can add or move gear as your trip changes.

Build Your Setup Around the Way You Adventure

Putco MOLLE panels and Venture TEC give you a modular foundation for organizing your overland setup. Use MOLLE to keep smaller, frequently used gear organized and within reach, while Venture TEC gives you flexible mounting and storage options that can adapt as your gear, seasons, and adventures change.

Build your setup around your gear, and let your gear evolve with the adventure.

One Platform. Endless Configurations.

No matter which Putco Venture TEC Rack rack you choose, you’re investing in the same modular ecosystem. Every system is built around durable aluminum TEC extrusions with integrated mounting channels designed to accept a growing lineup of Putco accessories.

Once you’ve selected the right rack for your truck, you can customize it with MOLLE panels, recovery gear mounts, lighting, cargo accessories, rooftop tent mounts, bike carriers, kayak mounts, and more. As your truck evolves, your Venture TEC system can evolve with it.

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