by admin | Jul 23, 2014 | General news
Tonight the team’s Wednesday evening training exercise took in the strenuous ascent of Winter Hill from the Wards’ Reservoir car park at Belmont. Starting at 260m above sea level, 20 team members were timed as they set off in the very warm summer’s...
by admin | Jul 23, 2014 | General news
On Saturday 28th June 2014, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson and his Bolton MRT colleague, navigator Elaine Gilliland, alongside of course Boris, were involved in a search in the Llandudno area of North Wales for a missing 49 years old male...
by admin | Jul 22, 2014 | Donations
We have today received a generous cheque donation of £50.00 from Miss Sylvia Silver of Horwich and wish to express our gratitude for this kind contribution to our funds. The thanks of the entire team membership are extended to Miss Silver for her kind support of...
by admin | Jul 22, 2014 | 2014, General news, Incident
At 17:57 this evening we were contacted by the North West Ambulance Service (Air Desk) with the initial report of two walkers and some sheep apparently stuck in the marshes on the track between Rivington Pike and Winter Hill. As team members began to respond to our...
by admin | Jul 22, 2014 | 2014, Incident
Early this afternoon, at 13.30hrs, our Mountain Rescue Trailing Search Dog Handler Steve Nelson, (A member of SARDA Wales) received a SARDA availability request to assist in a search in the Calder Valley MRTs operational area for a missing male in the north Halifax...
