High Desert Institute

Pathfinders’ Guild

Mission

Maintain safe and accessible pathways for off-grid travel, ensuring community members can move freely through the desert landscape and between the outposts and the other communities.

Future Projects

Trail Building and Maintenance

Create and maintain desert trails for hiking, biking, and emergency travel routes.
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Off-Grid Navigation Tools

Develop navigational tools and apps to help travelers find safe routes through the desert.
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Emergency Response Systems

Design systems for emergency response and evacuation routes in case of natural disasters.
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Organizing Carpools and Rideshares

Setting up systems to help people plan and coordinate travel plans across the web of permaculture and mutual aid. Learn More

Current Projects in this Guild

• Cyberpony Express
  A free, encrypted, public mesh network based on Meshtastic. It is designed to be a free, open-source, digital postal service for the people.
• Cyberpony Express BBS
  The bulletin board software that powers Cyberpony Express, providing resilient store-and-forward messaging across the mesh network.
• Flying Robots
  Low-cost quadcopters, rovers, and solar boats coordinated via the Cyberpony Express mesh to handle logistics, observation, and disaster response.
• Meshtastic-LLM
  A tool for connecting local LLMs to the Meshtastic network.