Brokeoff Mountain · March 2010
Bluebird morning after the snow camp.
Roads · family · movement · continuity
A Randall Stone family project: practical communications, travel, preparedness, and field continuity.
Know the road. Keep the signal. Carry the people.
Team Stone is how we organize travel, communications, outdoor life, family movement, and the ordinary failures that turn into emergencies only when nobody planned for them.
Travel, weather, movement, continuity
The system is visible in the places we actually go.
Team Stone digital contact
BrandMeister TG 3173147 — Group Call. K6RCS and Team Stone welcome calls; monitoring is intermittent. Arrange a time for dependable contact and use your own assigned source ID.
Regional linked access: the K6RCS site now maintains the public net/access matrix, including GEARS AllStar/EchoLink, WIN on-request linking, W6EK, Bay-Net, SNARS and PNWDigital.
What a public digital contact reveals · Current operating doctrine · Nets & access
Published travel guide
Fort Bragg / Westport Stone Family Punch List
Seasonal repeat-trip planning, Highway 20 and Branscomb Road, dates, family outings, public pools, open water, kid missions and a reusable master checklist.
2 languagesEnglish and Spanish at grade level
2 radio layersAmateur radio and GMRS, kept distinct
Many modesCar, bike, EUC, foot, downhill/backcountry/cross-country ski, snowshoe, kayak, swim, camp, and snow camp
One ruleEverybody gets home
The operating idea
Preparation for the things that actually happen.
We plan for bad weather, dead batteries, road closures, separation, weak coverage, forgotten documents, medical needs, delayed arrivals and equipment failures at inconvenient times.
Roads
Routes, seasons, stops, swimming, charging, weather, alternate paths, and useful places.
Travel →Family
Age-appropriate roles, bilingual communication, privacy, sports, culture, school, sailing, and movement.
Family →Signal
Cellular, APRS, amateur simplex, repeaters, GMRS, linked systems, Winlink, and rendezvous plans.
Communications →Continuity
Power, water, food, medication, documents, money, maps, equipment, and fallback plans.
Preparedness →Manuals
Official radio, software, network, APRS, Winlink and ARES references for deployment.
Resource directory →Travel knowledge should compound
We go back often enough to stop starting over.
The travel library collects the places we return to, the roads between them, seasonal differences, family stops, adult dates, business-casual options, swimming, radio, and the discoveries that made the second trip better than the first.
Fort Bragg and Westport, Bremerton and Kitsap, Walnut Creek and Winters, Lassen, and the Chico-to-Bremerton corridor already have prepared guide shelves.
Winter
Lassen is where the system gets honest.
Snow camping, backcountry skiing, cross-country skiing and snowshoeing combine weather, daylight, shelter, clothing, route, power, food, water, navigation, communication, and the judgment to retreat before the trip stops being fun.
Orange gear earns its place here.
A family in motion
Swimming, bikes, skates, running, soccer, baseball, dance, sailing, and radio.
The boys swim competitively with Chico AquaJets, bike for transportation, skate excitedly, run for sport and skill development, play competitive soccer and baseball, participate in Virtues and Rosas de María, and use GMRS. Rhys also participates in Scouts, drama, and small-boat sailing.
Whenever practical, we use Chico’s Class IV bike lanes for family commuting.
People · route · conditions
Preparedness is mostly ordinary movement done deliberately.
Snow camp · Forest Lake · Brokeoff Mountain
The route is prettier after the storm. It is not easier.
After snow camping through a major storm, the morning opened blue and clear for the snowshoe climb toward Brokeoff Mountain. This is the kind of short field clip that explains Team Stone better than another equipment inventory.
The goal is not to carry everything. It is to know what the trip, person, route, and failure actually require.
Team Stone Doctrine v30.32: v30.32 is the current controlling edition. The current PDF and editable Word edition are available below.
Field handoff
The useful guide is the one somebody can reach.
The QR code opens the permanent Team Stone field-systems and preparedness page.
Personal / family contact
Start with email. Add texting only if you want it.
Team Stone is a family project, not a commercial messaging program. The optional SMS box below is separate and starts unchecked.
Social & sharing
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