Details to follow if we can. pic.twitter.com/TiJcRqN5IC
20: Callout Saturday 14th April 2018 kmrt.org.uk/20-callout-sat…
#simonyates giving a lecture to raise funds for our #50thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/LHZ7fykguV
Bank holidays may mean time off for many, but for our crew it can mean even more call outs. On Sunday alone, we attended 11 missions! Here's one of the many we attended, in @TheBoltonNews, all thanks to your support. A huge thank you to @BoltonMRT too! bit.ly/2GwNjqm
Call out. Details to follow. pic.twitter.com/LZnaYvGdYV
Huge thank you to everyone who donated or entered our competition today. We raised just over £540, which is just amazing! All mountain rescue teams are run by volunteers and all the money to keep our teams running has to be raised. We truly appreciate you supporting us. Thanks
Wow there’s so many of you up at Rivington Pike! This is the place to be!!! We’ll be here up until four so pop up and see us. pic.twitter.com/Ihfh9ffx9G
Some of our team are based at Rivington Top Barn. We are on duty for the traditional Good Friday walk up Rivington Pike. It’s getting very busy even if a little damp. We are teaching some of our young visitors CPR. pic.twitter.com/v5Kuq2prFx
Sad incident at Tockholes Plantations, Darwen on Sunday 25th March involving @BoltonMRT @NWAmbulance and @NWAirAmbulance - facebook.com/BoltonMRT/post…
Sep 16 2015
Team training exercise, steep ground stretcher handling
This evening, assembling at 20.00hrs, team members took part in a (very) steep ground stretcher handling exercise, on the steep shale slopes of Shore Gully below Noon Hill, overlooking the moorland road between Rivington and Belmont.
A clear and very starry night with temperatures around 6c means autumn is just around the corner!
Twenty team members deployed for the exercise, using our Bell Mark 3 mountain rescue stretcher, aided by drag lines, on a course which took in very steep bare shale slopes and grassy moorland hillsides.
A further four team members remained at the roadside vehicle RVP.
Team member Kris Kilshaw, who is currently recovering from an operation, was our exercise casualty for the evening, and may even have fallen asleep on the stretcher at one stage!
Concluding at 22.15hrs all team members then enjoyed a social drink at the Jolly Crofters Public house on Chorley Old Road, Horwich.
Next weeks training is an indoors session at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ covering the use of drugs within mountain rescue casualty care in England and Wales.
By Paul Brain • Training •