{"id":82416,"date":"2023-11-10T15:36:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T20:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=82416"},"modified":"2025-03-12T07:30:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T12:30:04","slug":"hiker-and-pet-saved-pureora-forest-thanks-to-plb","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/survivor-stories\/hiker-and-pet-saved-pureora-forest-thanks-to-plb\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiker and Pet Saved at the Pureora Forest Thanks to her ResQLink 400 PLB"},"content":{"rendered":"

My dog Frankie and I are regular hikers and had planned to walk to the Ketemaringi Trig in the Pureora Forest<\/a> for lunch and return to the car.<\/p>\n

I had checked out the track and knew it was well within our capabilities.<\/p>\n

It was -2 degrees when we started, heading for a high of 10-12 degrees. We walked through 4wd track then entered the bush. After walking for about an hour and going around some fallen trees, I couldn\u2019t pick up the track again. I was able to work out where we were and get a compass bearing to get us back on track.<\/p>\n

I unclipped Frankie from my waist so she could run freely trailing her longline. She came back to check in as usual, then did not come, and despite having a strong recall she did not appear.<\/p>\n

As I went to look for her, I probably searched and called for around 2 hours in total. Realizing how disorientated it was, and what the time was \u2013 I was fast running out of light to safely navigate myself out. <\/span>I had to make the awful decision to leave her and get help.<\/span><\/p>\n

I found a spot with phone coverage and called 111, told them I wasn\u2019t injured and had dry clothes, food, and water. They advised me to activate my ResQLink 400 PLB. <\/a>I did at about 10 to 4 then hunkered down and waited.<\/span><\/p>\n

SAR made contact with me (via blowing whistles) at 10:15pm and we walked 2 \u00bd hours out. I felt at ease, aside from being troubled about Frankie. I had full confidence in my PLB and knew they would get to me as soon as they could. (And I knew Frankie would do her best too). <\/span><\/p>\n

The amazing team that rescued me impressed me with their recognition of how well-prepared I had been.<\/p>\n

I never considered or appreciated the time it took from activation of a PLB to contact from the SAR Team. \u00a0The teams that came to me were awesome, they made me feel safe and comfortable after six hours alone.<\/p>\n

Best news is that after a week of searching for her, Frankie walked out in better condition than any of us were \u00a0\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAR made contact with me (via blowing whistles) at 10:15pm and we walked 2 \u00bd hours out. I was surprisingly relaxed, apart from being upset about Frankie, I had full confidence in my PLB and knew they would get to me as soon as they could. (And I knew Frankie would do her best too). The team that rescued me were amazing, and were impressed with how prepared I was, and I was actually a bit proud of myself for being so prepared<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152124,"featured_media":82415,"template":"","survivor-category":[17],"terrain":[16],"survivor-event":[136],"survivor-cause":[127],"survivor-rescue":[139],"class_list":["post-82416","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-hiking","terrain-forest","survivor-event-normal-conditions","survivor-cause-lost","survivor-rescue-local-search-and-rescue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/82416","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\/152124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=82416"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=82416"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=82416"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=82416"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=82416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}