Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

and Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Our trail club owns 5 Garmin Inreach that we use on maintenance trips as a safety device. In the areas that we maintain, the Appalachian Trail as well as Saint Mary’s Wilderness areas, there is no cellular coverage. We use these satellite texting devices to communicate with each other and send an SOS if needed.

I am offeringtraining on these devices for those persons who normally go on maintenancetrips with the club. The InReaches are personalized for our communicationpurposes. The training will take place before the club meeting on September 9and again on October 7, at 6:00, at the Episcopal Church of the Advent in anoutdoor area.

I’ll go over theprocess of sending a club, preloaded messages and answering a message. We will practicethese several times. We can also sendmessages to each other.

If time allows,I’ll show you how to use Bluetooth to connect the Inreach to your smartphone. To do this, youwould need to download the Garmin app “Explore” to your own smartphone prior tothe training.

The club has 5InReaches, so I can only accommodate five people for training. To register forthis training, please email me at bruce.davidson3@verizonB.net

 Bruce Davidson