A 32 year old trail bike rider is recovering, after hitting a tree in the Girard State Forest, east of Tenterfield, yesterday afternoon.
Guided by an emergency beacon – Westpac Recsue Helicopter paramedics were winched into dense bushland to stabilise the man.
He suffered a fractured femur and was ferried by ambulance to Drake, then airlifted to Lismore Base Hospital.
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