Originally Posted by
Carlsen Highway
LOL If you can afford $300 a night to take your woman out then I am not surprised your springing for a PLB.
But just because you blokes like having them, does not make them essential. in recent years the common use of them has changed the nature of an emmergency, giving rise to a spate of callouts that I will describe as frivolous. Someone I know who had a sore ankle, the pair that called a chopper in because they were cold and didnt have a lighter for a fire, the lady that got choppered out because there were too many sandflies, the hippy that didn't wear any shoes and his feet were sore.
If you need a PLB to be comfortable in the bush then you should probably take up another past time. Mountain climbing, sure. Take a PLB. Wear a helmet. But its more dangerous driving to the National Park. This insistance on carrying a PLB as if it should be mandatory smacks of self aggrandizement of some kind, a bit macho, look out deep wild I go...you walked there. Through some trees. The most dangerous thing threatening you is the drive home.
Yes people die in the bush every year. Most of them are foreign tourists who wear denim jeans and die of exposure. A couple of old bastards hunting will have coronaries, because there old bastards. If you\re truly unlucky you'll get hit by a rock after you've shot a tahr and fall off a cliff, but as I said, if you're mountain climbing...