Real-time Fire and Air Quality by text, inReach, etc.

from faqs…

“This doesn’t seem to work with the inReach “Send Reference Point” feature.

Yes, I discovered this issue when testing the app. The “Send Reference Point” function of the inReach does not currently let the recipient successfully reply back to the sender. You can test this by sending a message to your own phone and trying to reply. I opened a support ticket with Garmin on this, but more tickets might get a faster resolution, so feel free to do the same.”

Sending a Preset or Text message from an inReach device usually includes your current position, and should work fine with TrailInfo.org.

From the inReach SE and Explorer manuals:

Sending a Reference Point
You can send a message that includes a reference point with details about another location. This feature is helpful if you want to meet someone at that location.

Sending a Reference Point not found in the Mini / Mini 2 manuals.

If you want to know about another location, you’ll need the latitude and longitude in decimal degrees. Two decimal places, roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) maximum inaccuracy, should be close enough for these purposes.

You can click locations and get lat/lon with too many decimal places from google.com/maps, which is what I did for Bishop. Or figure it out the old fashioned way from genuine USGS paper topo maps. There’s probably a bunch of other ways.

— Rex

edit: already answered