For Garmin inReach · or any US phone by SMS
Weather, avalanche, fire, rivers, and what's ahead on your route, answered by an agent that knows your plan, short enough that your device shows the whole thing. No app. No signal. Anywhere on Earth.
Free to start, no credit card. Or read how it works first.
Instructions for use
Takes about 30 seconds. Your email and a code — that's the whole form. Not ready? Open the demo: an example trip on the map and a few live questions to the planner, no account.
The app hands you a short code. Send it to the agent's address from your device — one message. That ties your inReach to your account and starts the thread you'll write to from the field.
Text like you'd text a partner. The agent reads your GPS with every message — and your route and gear, if you've synced a plan — and answers inside 160 characters, so nothing gets clipped.
No inReach?
The same agent, the same sources, the same 160-character replies — from any phone with cell signal. Nothing to buy.
Same 30 seconds, same form.
Enter your US mobile number on the Field tab and agree to the texts. The agent answers from +1 888 996 5644 — save it as a contact before you go.
A text carries no GPS, so name the place: "wx Berthoud Pass tmrw?" The agent finds it, reads the same sources, and answers in one text.
Sources cited
Register index
Any question, in your own shorthand. A few from the field:
At home
Whoever worries about you reads the same register. Share one TripView link and they get the trip as you filed it: the brief, start and end, days and miles, with no account and no app.
While the trip is active, the same link hands off your last known position as a live KML feed.
Posted rates
Every tier gets the same agent, the same sources, the same 160-character replies. You pay for coverage, not quality.
10 messages, lifetime — not per month, and one pool whether you send them from an inReach or by text. Enough to prove it works from the field before you carry it somewhere that matters. Trip planning (10 planner chats a month) and TripView included.
Unlimited messages, plus proactive alerts while you're on trip: severe weather, wildfire proximity, unhealthy air.
Get a Season PassOne trip's worth of unlimited messages and alerts — seven days from the moment you buy it. Buy it the week you go.
Get a Trip PassStart free, no credit card. Buy a pass from your account when the trial runs out; cancel anytime.
Free, with no credit card. About 30 seconds.
Start freeOr try the demo first — an example trip and a live planner exchange, no account.