PLB rescue

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• The Riding Reporters
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Anonther story highlighting the importance of a good rescue beacon.

With no phone network and a prospect of seeing no-one for days, the PLB had an ambulance on site in around two hours.

I bought my PLB in 2009 and I quickly got into the habit of taking it with me, keeping it on my person in case I had a mishap and was separated from the bike.

I was returning home from Adelaide to Canberra with a friend, David Boulter from Melbourne, recently. We were both on BMWs with knobbies, and after an overnight stop at Mungo Lake Shearers’ Quarters in western NSW we set off in the early morning for a tour around Mungo Lake before making our way towards Ivanhoe and Hillston. We’d checked with rangers on the condition of Clare Road, a rarely used track that bypasses Ivanhoe and meets up with the Cobb Highway at Mossgiel.