by admin | Nov 29, 2015 | General news, Safety Cover
Today the team provided standby rescue cover for the David Staff Memorial Charity Fell Race. This fell race takes in a course over 6.6 km including 366m of ascent, centred on Jubilee Tower, Darwen and Darwen Moor. The course this year followed last year’s route,...
by admin | Nov 28, 2015 | General news
Regular readers will be aware we have two operational Mountain Rescue Dog Handlers within the Bolton Mountain Rescue Team membership. Both represent specialisms within the NSARDA community, where air scenting search dogs are perhaps more widely known to the public at...
by admin | Nov 28, 2015 | General news
Long time friend of our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and his partner Ann, former Bolton MRT Call out list member Lee Budworth, of Adlington, a very keen outdoorsman, walker, mountaineer, fell runner and skier, contacted Garry earlier this year and mentioned that he...
by admin | Nov 28, 2015 | 2015, Incident
It has been a very busy period for our specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Team of late, with today being the turn of our equally specialist DVSD Dog Team, in the guise of Bolton MRT DVSD Dog Handler Dave Marsh (of SARDA Ireland North) and his DVSD Search Dog...
by admin | Nov 27, 2015 | General news
Starting this afternoon to prepare for a course commencement this evening, a small number of Bolton MRT members are involved either in the organisation and as instructors, or as participants in this years annual MREW Party Leaders Course fully residential training...
