We just bought this PLB device on 15th September 2026. It’s cost us AUD$569 via ‘ARB Penrith‘ 4×4 accessories store, which is located just down ‘the hill’ so to speak from our Blue Mountains base. Perhaps this purchase was inspiration which readers might appreciate if having read our previous article about ‘Lily’s Law‘ [>READ MORE]. Yet also in our case, […]
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So what fools plan to hike in Blue Mountains mid-summer in forecast high temperatures in the mid-30os Celsius (the mere shade temperature, that is) in scorching full sun? Amateur hour ignorant fools? Or was there else perhaps something more sinister at play between the two hikers? Tragically, one of the two teenagers died of likely heat stroke as a consequence; anyone […]
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Dr Mosley’s Heat Stroke Lesson Popular television medical presenter Dr Michael Mosley (67) on 5th June 2024 tragically succumbed to heat stroke whilst on holiday hiking solo over a rocky Greek Island ‘Symi‘. We presume that he was an inexperienced hiker. The subject island geographically identified below appears rather closer to Turkey than to Greece, but whatever. The timing was […]
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At Nature Trail, we prefer hiking to bushwalking, and choose and recommend the Keen brand in hiking boots – quality American, lightweight, durable, trusted. To international visitors, ‘hiking’ is a known term, but ‘bushwalking’ requires explanation. Hiking is the outdoor activity taking a long walk along a trail or track in the natural countryside for pleasure. That is why we […]
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