I was out in Codgers MTB park which is pretty close to the Nelson central city, riding a couple of laps on Turner’s trail when I came across a couple of mountain bikers. One of the riders was sitting on a picnic table the other was trying to make a phone call with a couple of dogs pacing around his feet. I was about to ride on but I noticed the rider sitting was covered in dust down one side of him, a sure sign he had crashed. I stopped, it soon became pretty obvious this rider had had a major stack, I have a background in MTB guiding so quickly did an assessment of his injuries, it quickly became obvious he had severe concussion and was very confused plus some sort of shoulder injury my take on the situation was this chap needed to get to hospital quickly. The other rider wasn’t having any luck with making 111 phone call so it was obvious the PLB needed to be activated. We were in a steep-sided valley with no cell phone reception but I was keen to get a backup phone call to emergency services as well, a young fella turned up on a ebike so we sent him off to find reception to make a phone call to emergency services with location coordinates to be given to the NZ emergency coordination centre. So within 25 min the emergency helicopter arrived using the coordinates send by my PLB and took the injured rider and his bike to the hospital. His dog was taken back to his home by another rider who was out riding with his dog as well legend!