Trip intentions · backcountry
You go.
We’ll let your people know if you don’t come back.
File a plan in ninety seconds. Two fields are required: when you’ll be back, and who to tell. If you don’t check in, we text them — with your plate, your route, your gear photo, and the phone number of the agency that covers where you went.
File your first planFree while it’s just you and two people.
Not a tracker.
No GPS breadcrumbs. No constant pings.
Not a rescue service.
We don’t call SAR. In an emergency, call 911.
Nobody browses your trips.
Only you and the people you named.
Not a rescue service
Porchlight is not a rescue service. We don't contact search and rescue — we tell the people you named, and they decide what to do. In an emergency, call 911. If you need to reach help from the backcountry, carry a satellite messenger.