{"id":26186,"date":"2022-06-02T07:30:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=26186"},"modified":"2022-06-02T07:30:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T12:30:54","slug":"australia-resqlink-400-biking","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/survivor-stories\/australia-resqlink-400-biking\/","title":{"rendered":"ResQLink 400 Needed When Weather Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a 330k bike packing trip, I wanted to cover 90k on the first day. At 12:30 I was already at 130, easy peasy, 22Km\/H average.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie’s Bike<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then after lunch, I kept getting deeper and deeper into a remote forest where the terrain was getting increasingly muddy, I kept telling myself “i’s not gonna be for long surely”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The View During Some of Charlie’s Ride<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The state was buldozering the track for 40km, and it literally made it impossible to ride, it w\u00e9as mud pit. I basically pushed \/ carried my bike for 20km before getting super cold as it started pouring. I couldn\u2019t even push the bike by the end because the mud stopped the wheels from spinning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was 20km from the gravel \/ road on both side of the trail, and I couldn’t see myself carry my bike for that distance under the increasingly strong rain, and the extremely slippery terrain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After analysing the situation for a good 45 minutes, and realising that those wheels weren’t going to start spinning again anytime soon, I pressed the button on the ResQLink 400 beacon.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie’s Tent Against the Weather<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, Australian rescue service are fast, within an hour, a chopper had located me, and after 2 hours, the 4WD arrived to pick myself and my bike up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was getting dark and wet, and I’m definitely grateful I carried the ResQLink 400 beacon because I don’t know how I would have gotten out of this considering the path was getting more and more damaged due to the rain.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After analysing the situation for a good 45 minutes, and realising that those wheels weren’t going to start spinning again anytime soon, I pressed the beacon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38325,"featured_media":30053,"template":"","survivor-category":[23],"terrain":[16],"survivor-event":[128],"survivor-cause":[126],"survivor-rescue":[139],"class_list":["post-26186","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-off-road","terrain-forest","survivor-event-thunder-storm","survivor-cause-weather","survivor-rescue-local-search-and-rescue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/26186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=26186"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=26186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}