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. 

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”.

The state was buldozering the track for 40km, and it literally made it impossible to ride, it wéas mud pit. I basically pushed / carried my bike for 20km before getting super cold as it started pouring. I couldn’t even push the bike by the end because the mud stopped the wheels from spinning. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.