​Shortly after midday, the Team was requested to assist a Welsh Ambulance Service (WAST) crew access an injured man at Aberllefenni, near Corris.

In the very wet conditions, the 34 year old male had slipped in the mouth of old quarry workings at the top of a very steep incline. Having dislocated his shoulder in the fall he was in a great deal of pain and unable to move himself. A WAST crew attended the incident but identified that they were unable to transport him from the precarious position and requested the Team's assistance.

Having been given pain relief, the man was loaded onto a stretcher and lowered down the quarry incline. As the ground became less steep, the Team was able to carry the stretcher down to the waiting ambulance. The man was taken to Bronglais Hospital for further assessment and treatment. Everyone was off the hill by 3:15 p.m.

At around 11:20 p.m. call-handlers from the Team were made aware of a party of walkers stuck on Cader Idris.

The group, consisting of a man and five women, were players and coaches from a rugby club in the south-east of England. Attempting the Welsh 3-peaks challenge, the party had left Kent on Friday evening, and had commenced the climb of Snowdon at 5 a.m. and Cader Idris at 2:30 p.m. 

Having reached the summit of Cader Idris, a combination of poor weather, encroaching darkness and navigational errors took the group away from the intended route and on to the steep crags above Cwm Cau. While some of the group tried to find a way down, others called for mountain rescue assistance.

Using smart-phone technology, call-handlers were able to pinpoint their location amongst the crags and the group was directed to retrace their steps up the steep ground to the plateau above, then move to intercept a fence line which would mark the safer way down from Mynydd Moel. A small party of Team volunteers was dispatched up the hill to provide extra lighting and assistance as the group made their way off the mountain. Tired after around 20 hours on the go, the walkers were otherwise unharmed, and everyone was safely off the hill by 3:30 a.m.

Shortly after 3:00 p.m. call handlers from the Team were made aware of a walker stuck on a scree above Llyn Cau on Cader Idris.

With no further details or means of contacting the casualty, a hasty-party of Team volunteers was tasked to head up the mountain to see if they could establish contact with the walker.

​As rescuers were heading to the scene, news came through that the man had been assisted by passing walkers and the Team was stood down.

At around 5:30 p.m. call-handlers from the Team were made aware of a Group of 6 walkers lost on Cader Idris.

The group was composed of two independent parties, one of which was attempting the Welsh 3 peaks to raise money for charity, and both were lost in the low cloud and rain on the summit plateau of Mynydd Moel. The groups joined forces to find a way off, but ended up coming down on the north rather than the south side of the mountain. Finding themselves on the edge of darkness, wet cold and tired, and having run off the edge of their map, they called for help.

Team volunteers moved up the hill to meet the group, provide extra lighting, and escort them down to the road-head. Everyone was safely back at vehicles shortly after 8:00 p.m.

Shortly before 11:30 p.m.  the Team was requested by North Wales Police to help in the search for a vulnerable adult missing from home near Tywyn.

Along with Fire and Rescue service personnel, the team began searching the rural margins of Abergynolwyn village in search of the 66 year old man who had been missing from his home address for a number of hours. At around 1:30 a.m. the man returned home and all search teams were recalled.

​At around 6:00 p.m.  call-handlers from the Team were made aware of a dog stuck in a gully near Tywyn.

The dog owner was walking her pets in Nant Gwernol, near Abergynolowyn, when one of the dogs, a very small schnauzer, fell a considerable distance into a stream gully. She initially feared the dog had been killed by the fall, but when the dog started making noises she went to seek help.

As the rope team assembled, a team volunteer met with the dog walker to assess the site where the dog was trapped. From his knowledge of the area he realised that he could access the stream bed higher up, and for the price of a few boot-fulls of water, could reach the dog without rope access. The dog was duly recovered, largely unharmed by the experience, and reunited with a relieved owner.

Shortly before 5:00 p.m. Call-Handlers from the Team were made aware of an injured mountain biker near Lake Vyrnwy.

The 50 year-old male was reported to have come off his bike and sustained pelvic injuries.

While the Team was gathering information  the EMRTS Wales air ambulance attended the scene and the Team was stood down.

Thanks are due to our neighbours  at South Snowdonia Search & Rescue Team who, living closer to the scene, offered to provide early assistance to the casualty.

At around 5:30 p.m.  Call-Handlers from the Team were made aware of two walkers lost in mist above lake Vyrnwy.

The pair, a man and woman from Northampton, had been following a way-marked trail but lost the markers and ended up in an area of deep heather and gorse. Disorientated and confused in deteriorating conditions, the couple were not able to offer any idea about their whereabouts other than being above the lake and that they parked at the dam-end.

With phone signals too poor to make use of any of the usual strategies to quiz smart-phones for location information, it took some inspired detective work on the part of the handler to be able to transform this information into a feasible search area.

Team volunteers made their way to the lake Vyrnwy Hotel car park where the local gamekeeper was able to escort a Team vehicle up a hill track to within a few hundred meters of where the casualties were eventually found, cold but uninjured.

Team vehicles were back at base by 10:00 p.m.

​Shortly before 5:00 p.m. the Team was requested by Dyfed-Powys Police to assist with casualty access following a road traffic incident.

Following a collision involving two cars on the B4391 between Bala and Llangynog, one of the cars had left the carriageway down a steep embankment and had rolled several times before coming to rest. The incident was already attended by Police, Fire & Rescue, and Ambulance services.

The initial request was for the team to assist in accessing and transporting the driver who was still believed to be in the car that had left the road. With the likely need for a technical rope rescue approach, the Team requested the assistance of rope-technicians from our neighbouring Team, North East Wales Mountain Rescue (NEWSAR), to assist our own experts. However, as volunteers from both teams made their way to the scene, it became apparent that the driver was no longer in the vehicle.

With the possibility that the driver had been flung from the rolling car, or had wandered away in an injured condition, a search was initiated. NEWSAR volunteers started to search the trajectory the car followed, from the road to its resting place, whilst the Aberdyfi team began a search starting from the vehicle itself. Scent-specific and Open-area dogs were also deployed by Search and Rescue Dogs Association Wales to join the operation.

As search operations were getting underway, the news came through that the missing driver had been located in a nearby village and the search was stood down. Everyone was off the hillside and heading home by 7:40 p.m.