Distress Beacons

One of the FREE sections of the Holdmine app and webapp is the travel section - where you can easily upload and share your latest travel plans with your loved ones. It saves them searching through emails and the likes to find the details (really helpful for the non-tech folks!).

You can also save your emergency device details in there too - having a distress or personal locator beacon (PLB) is a great investment if you're into spending time on foot, on a bike or on a boat and DOC share a great post below which explains what happens if you need to use yours, how to use it, and a reminder to test it well before you need it!

The full post here: https://blog.doc.govt.nz/2022/04/12/how-to-use-a-distress-beacon/

DoC have an earlier post on the different types of beacons here. And earlier this year, Wilderness Magazine did a nice explainer on them also.