Roads · family · movement · 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.
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.
The operating idea
Preparation without cosplay.
We plan for the things that actually happen: bad weather, dead batteries, road closures, separation, weak coverage, forgotten documents, medical needs, delayed arrivals, and equipment that chooses the worst moment to become philosophical.
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 and backcountry skiing 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.
The goal is not to carry everything. It is to know what the trip, person, route, and failure actually require.
Contact & SMS preference
Start a conversation without making the communication rules mysterious.
Choose YES or NO for SMS. Neither choice is preselected, and YES is not a condition of receiving a response.