Routes
A route earns a page here only where somebody who governs it publishes a fact that changes what you carry. That is rarer than it sounds, and it is why there are three of these rather than three hundred — distance and elevation are on every aggregator and they move nothing.
- Great Divide Mountain Bike Route
What binds — water, as a volume rather than a distance
The Adventure Cycling Association declares three to four gallons per person between Pinedale and Rawlins. That is 11.4 to 15.1 litres, worked against three measured frames — and two of them have nowhere to put it.
- Highland Trail 550
What binds — shelter, made non-optional by a rule rather than by the weather
The organiser publishes an eight-item obligatory kit and three rules that close the ways round it. Quoted verbatim, and joined to which of three measured frames can mount a seat pack at all.
- EuroVelo 15 — Rhine Cycle Route
What binds — neither — which is the unusual claim, and it needs the evidence
One of only two certified EuroVelo routes, surveyed in the field and scoped to 1,287 km of 1,450. Why that makes planning without a tent defensible here, plus the four carriers whose verdict never changes across three frames.
Why there are not more
A published mandatory kit list or a declared carry exists where a governing body publishes one — a route association, a self-supported race organiser, a certification scheme. Everywhere else there is a track with a name, and a page about it would repeat what the interview already asks you. That is the page you want instead.