I want to start with the part that matters most: thank you.

You read this letter. You forward it to people planning trips. You write back with questions, corrections, and the occasional "you got that trailhead wrong" — which I appreciate more than you know. The Talus Field exists because a few thousand of you decided a resident's notes were worth your Sunday morning. That's not something I take lightly.

So I'd like to hand you something.

Over the last stretch I've been building the Yosemite Field Guide — a guide to the park that lives on your phone. Four regional guides covering the Valley, Wawona and Glacier Point, Tuolumne Meadows and the Tioga Road, and Hetch Hetchy. Tappable GPS on every stop, including the unmarked pullouts. A topo map of the whole park. The Secret Guide — the quiet vistas, the trails the crowds walk past, the parking moves that save you an hour. Trip planning, packing lists, drive times, and difficulty and elevation on every hike.

It's everything I'd tell you if you called me before your trip, organized the way you'd actually use it.

Thirty days, free

I want the people who've been here from the start to be the first ones in.

Use code TALUS30 at guide.thetalusfieldjournal.com and the whole thing is yours free for 30 days. No card, no catch, nothing to cancel if you decide it's not for you. After that it's one payment for 18 months on every device you own.

And then tell me what you think

This is the real ask. Use it. Plan something with it. Take it into the park if you're headed that way.

Then hit reply and tell me what's missing, what's wrong, and what you'd want in it that isn't there yet. What region needs more. What stop I skipped. What you went looking for and couldn't find.

I built this for the people reading this letter, and I'd rather it be right than be finished. Your notes are what get it there.

Thank you again — for reading, for writing back, for being here.

Cory

El Portal, CA