Come join the team for our Moors & Mountain- An evening of music with BoltonMRT. Doors open at 6.30pm at Christ Church Heaton, Bolton BL1 5A. We have some amazing music planned, a raffle, cake & mulled wine and even a display from the team #BoltonMRT #MREW #Fundraiser #MusicEvent pic.twitter.com/xRK7WbjZO3
Happy International Volunteer Day! 🎉🎉🎉 #BoltonMRT #MountainRescueEnglandandWales #MREW #InternationalVolunteerDay #IND2019 pic.twitter.com/5edRk0v2bO
The Santas have been arriving at Rivington Pike as part of the @boltonhospice Hike the Pike. The team are helping with the event. Second group of Santas are well on their way 🎅🏼🎅🏼🎅🏼 #BoltonMRT #MREW #BoltonHospice #Santa #HikeThePike pic.twitter.com/SAltmTzRNr
A massive thank you to outgoing President Alan Smith @TurtonRotary for supporting our work via a very kind donation of £500. He chose a number of local charities to benefit from the funds raised during his year in office. facebook.com/43382929665243… pic.twitter.com/P0JPWIC2G9
Bolton Sports Federation Ladies’ Rounders League made us their Charity for 2019 donating £2,950. This is an amazing sum & we would like to thank all the players, the Committee & everyone who supported & organised events. #BoltonMRT #MREW #BSFRoundersLeague #rounders #fundraising pic.twitter.com/hi7RF1XZ21
Donate to BoltonMRT- at no cost to you. Just head over to smile.amazon.co.uk and chose Bolton Mountain Rescue as your chosen charity then shop away like normal. #BoltonMRT #MREW #AmazonSmile #Donations #Giving #BlackFriday #Supporting #Volunteers #EveryPennyHelps pic.twitter.com/lHVqDZErHX
Donate to BoltonMRT- at no cost to you. Just head over to smile.amazon.co.uk and chose Bolton Mountain Rescue as your chosen charity then shop away like normal. #BoltonMRT #MREW #AmazonSmile #Donations #Giving #BlackFriday #Supporting #Volunteers #EveryPennyHelps pic.twitter.com/lHVqDZErHX
#Callout 0900hrs 16/10/19 with @BoltonMRT @NPASBarton @LancsTacOps and other resources to assist @PrestonPolice with an ongoing missing person search pic.twitter.com/YZ235cwZah
Callout at 21:39 last night to search for a missing 22 yr old female and 15 yr old male (brother and sister) on Winter Hill - working alongside @LancsPolice and @NPASBarton for a successful outcome - full details at facebook.com/BoltonMRT/post… pic.twitter.com/C6OPpwT1P4
@BoltonMRT demonstrating rope rescue skills at Bolton Central fire station open day. pic.twitter.com/94ECczK8kQ
Dec 17 2008
Operation: Find Santas Sleigh
This evening in typical(!) nil visibility mist and rainy conditions team members 33 call out team members, one ex-team member and 4 Support Group members met for our annual fun Christmas exercise, this year titled “Operation: Find Santas Sleigh.”
In two large groups most of those assembled were dispatched from Lower House car park RVP in Rivington, into the Terraced Gardens to follow a series of clues leading to Santas sleigh.
Each group had six “stations” to visit each of which was identified by a chemical light stick and a card with a letter of the alphabet on it. Of course to our team members all they were interested in was the mince pies, Christmas cakes, sweets, toffees and other goodies at each station.
A fun radio exercise also took place with very little chance of finding within the team three wise men, the Christmas fairy not to mention the vestal virgin!
With all stations completed the two groups then met up with our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon and Training Officer Andrew Ryding who offered all a tipple of finest whisky, followed by their devious and cunning plan.
Each group was asked to take part in a mountain rescue stretcher carrying race with support group members Gillian Gregory and Johanne Lamb as the ’casualties’ in a run back to the Lower House car park. And the devious and cunning part of this…. Each casualty had balanced on their belly a bucket full of very cold water, the winning team being the one that had the most water left in the bucket at the end of the race. (well water does mix with whisky!)
Back at the car park it was difficult to work out who won as both buckets of water were (inevitably) promptly thrown over our treasurer Joanne Stones by team member Craig Lamb who wishes to remain anonymous.
Big thanks to Team Leader Garry Rhodes for purchasing and supplying all the food goodies and whisky for this excellent exercise. (thanks also to Garry Rhodes and Steve Fletcher for braving the torrential rain before the exercise to put all the items in place).
And why was it called operation: Santas Sleigh? Remember the card hanging with the goodies? If these hadn’t disintegrated in the rain they would have spelt out ’Santas Sleigh’
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