{"id":37586,"date":"2023-07-14T09:06:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T14:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=37586"},"modified":"2025-04-01T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:59:22","slug":"stranded-motorcyclist-found-help-resqlink435","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/survivor-stories\/stranded-motorcyclist-found-help-resqlink435\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded Motorcyclist Found with the help of his ResQLink VIEW RLS"},"content":{"rendered":"

After getting into enduro-style motorcycles, I found myself without others to ride with. That’s why I got the ResQLink VIEW RLS<\/a> from ACR.<\/p>\n

I started out Saturday around 10am and followed some tracks up in the forest near Tumut<\/a>. After awhile, I ended up in an area that was quite steep and very unfamiliar. After a major clutch failure on my bike, I took some overgrown tracks but soon became disoriented and fatigued. Upon coming across a track, there was severe washout one way, and a large fallen tree in the other direction.<\/p>\n

InsteaI reached the top, climbed under a fence, and oriented myself to the town. I started down the hill. After a few incidents, including a 3m tumble onto rocks, I was thrown into blackberries. Finally, I reached the creek.<\/p>\n

I spent an hour of trying to pull the bike up the creek bank (no clutch to ride the bike), but decided to park the bike and began walking around 4:30pm. I exhausted my food around 1pm and had no water. So,\u00a0 I filled the water bottles in my pack with water from the creek and began hiking in my motorcycle gear (minus the helmet) in the direction of my UTE.<\/p>\n

After walking for almost 2 hours, the sun had set and the temperature dropped to near zero very quickly. Without clouds overhead, and as the wind started to pick up, I made the decision to activate my ResQLink VIEW RLS. I decided to continue towards my vehicle, knowing nearby roads would eventually appear if I kept going.<\/p>\n

The task was slow, as I had to push through a few hundred meters of 2m blackberry bramble in near total darkness. Several wombat burrows also made me lose footing and had to be climbed out of carefully.<\/p>\n

Once the police rescue arrived, I found that I was still less than halfway to my UTE. At the rate I had been travelling, would have taken close to 6 more hours to reach it (plus over an hour of travel home).<\/p>\n

As it was, the police found me at approximately 9:15pm and alerted my emergency contacts. I returned to my UTE at 10pm, got home after midnight, and ate for the first time in 12 hours.<\/p>\n

After resting, I quickly recovered the motorcycle, thanks to the GPS points sent with the distress beacon. Thankfully, my safety team was able to provide the information of where I was and what I was wearing to the emergency responders, as well as confirming my location.<\/p>\n

I will be making sure to get a new PLB before continuing to ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it was, the police found me at approximately 9:15pm and alerted my emergency contacts. Returning to my UTE around 10pm, I was able to make it home a bit after midnight and eat for the first time in almost 12hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135651,"featured_media":37585,"template":"","survivor-category":[23],"terrain":[21],"survivor-event":[136],"survivor-cause":[127],"survivor-rescue":[138],"class_list":["post-37586","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-off-road","terrain-mountain","survivor-event-normal-conditions","survivor-cause-lost","survivor-rescue-law-enforcement-police"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/37586","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\/135651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=37586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}