​At around 5:30 p.m. the Team was requested to assist a Welsh Ambulance Service Trust (WAST) crew in moving an injured man off a hillside to their ambulance.

The man, an 83 year-old Belgian, was part of a party plane-spotting on the popular "Mach-loop," a training circuit used by military aircraft. He had slipped and injured his ankle on a steep slope just below Bwlch Oerddrws near Dinas Mawddwy.

The man was attended by WAST paramedics, while Team voluteers carried up a stretcher and rigging equipment to lower the man down the slope.

Everyone was down off thew hill by 7:50 p.m. and the man was transferred to ambulance care for further hospital-based assessment and treatment.

​At around 4:30 p.m. Team call-handlers were made aware of two overdue walkers on Cader Idris.

The pair, a man and a woman in their early 20s and visiting from USA, had made an early start on the Minffordd path up the mountain and had reached the summit shortly after 11:00 a.m. with the man's father.  The father had returned by the same route to pick up the car, whilst the others intended to descend to Ty Nant via the pony path and meet him there.

The pair made several attempts to find the pony path, but in the end had to return to the summit and retrace their steps down the Minffordd path. The situation was then compounded by the fact that the "missing" pair and the father were now both at car-parks on opposite sides of the mountain with no mobile coverage.

Team volunteers checked the likely exit points from the mountains, and the missing woman was found at Minffordd. Her partner had been given a lift by a member of the public and was on his way to Ty Nant at the bottom of the pony path. With the use of Team radios to overcome communication challenges the individual parties were made aware of the situation, and quickly reunited.

At around 12:15 p.m. Team call-handlers received a request from the Welsh Ambulance Service, via North Wales Police, to assist a male suffering chest pains on Cader Idris.

The man, aged 47, was experiencing a number of symptoms consistent with a heart problem, and given the potential serious nature of his condition, it was decided to request Coastguard helicopter R936 to speed up the transfer to hospital. The aircraft was very quickly on scene, by which time the phonefind protocol had been used to obtain an accurate location for the party by quizzing their smartphone. The casualty was assessed by the attending winchman, and then winched into the aircraft for transfer to hospital for further tests and treatment.

At around 6:00 p.m. the Team was requested to assist the Welsh Ambulance Service in locating and accessing a woman experiencing seizures in the woods above Dolgoch Falls near Tywyn.

With only an outline description of the whereabouts of the woman, a number of small hill parties were deployed to search likely locations and a team member escorted WAST crew up the path in anticipation of quick find. The casualty was quickly located and assessed by the ambulance crew who requested an urgent evacuation. Assistance from the Coastguard helicopter, R936, was requested and granted, and a suitable landing site was identified by the Team near to the Casualty location. The casualty was carried by stretcher to the landing zone and flown to Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth for further assessment and treatment. A member of the Casualties party was escorted down by Team volunteers, and everyone was off the hill by 8:15 p.m.

At around 10:30 p.m. Team call-handlers were alerted to 3 walkers lost and benighted on Cader Idris.

The men, in their 20's and from the Aberystwyth area, had set off from Dolgellau earlier in the day to walk to their campsite at Minffordd. The route was more complex than anticipated and they found themselves disorientated and lost on steep ground as darkness fell.

The position of the men was identified using PhoneFind protocols to quiz their mobile phones for location information. A party of Team volunteers was then dispatched to locate and escort the men from their position. 

Tired but otherwise unharmed, the men were brought down off the mountain and delivered to their nearby campsite by 1:30 a.m.

Shortly before 9:00 a.m. the Team was requested to help in the search for a vulnerable person missing from Fairbourne.

The Team was tasked with searching the Mawddach Trail, but just as sweeps got underway, North Wales Police confirmed that the person had been located.

At around 1:30 p.m. Team call handlers were made aware of a missing child on Cader Idris.

The 9 year old boy had been climbing the mountain via the Minffordd path with his father. The child was ranging ahead in the sunshine and was last spotted on the west ridge before the summit. When the father reached the summit he was shocked to see that the son was not there as expected and raised the alarm.

A Team volunteer, already on the mountain, was quickly able to make contact with the father at the summit and get a detailed account of events. Team members were deployed to all major routes off the mountain to contain the search area and quiz descending walkers. Given the age of the missing person, air support was requested and the Coast Guard Helicopter R936, which was already airborne, arrived on scene quickly. Just as plans for search taskings were being formulated, North Wales Police received a call saying the boy had been found, alive and well and walking down the Foxes path on the wrong side of the mountain.

As Team volunteers met up with the child, the father was escorted down by a Team member and a Snowdonia National Park Ranger. The pair were reunited at Ty Nant car park and given a lift back around the mountain to their own car in a team vehicle.

Shortly after 2:00 a.m. the Team was requested to help in the search for a missing man in the Tywyn area.

Search parties of Team volunteers completed their search taskings and were stood down at around 6:30 a.m.

At around 9:30 a.m. Team call-handlers were made aware of a party of walkers lost in poor visibility on Cader Idris.

The walkers, in their early 20's, had become disorientated in low cloud between Pen y Gader and Mynydd Moel, and although carrying a map and compass, were unable to use these tools to find their position in visibility reported to be down to 10m at times.

Using PhoneFind protocols, the teams were able to remotely pin-point the walkers and give them instructions on how to regain the path. Progress was monitored by phone and the party were able to successfully get down off the mountain.

"Conditions on the mountain were as per the weather forecast" said Team spokesperson Graham O'Hanlon. "The mountains can be an enjoyable and invigorating place to be in a wide range of weather conditions, but it remains the responsibility of those heading into the hills to ensure that their equipment,  skill-set and emergency provision matches the prevailing and expected conditions."

"We hope this experience will encourage the walkers to pay more attention to the weather forecast when making route choices, or to take steps to fill in the gaps in their navigational skills. Ideally both" added Graham.


At around 2:00 p.m. the Team was contacted with regard to an injured man, again on Cader Idris.
The man, in his early 60's, had taken a tumbling fall whilst descending the Minffordd Path from the summit. He had sustained a suspected fractured elbow along with a head and chest injury, but, aided by his companion, was able to continue down as Team volunteers made their way up to meet him. The injuries were stabilised by Team casualty Carers, and the man was escorted down off the mountain. 

 Whilst providing support for the annual Ras y Gader fell race, Team volunteers were faced with two seperate but simultaneous incidents on Cader Idris.

At the top of the zig-zags on the Pony Path, at a junction known as "the 560", a runner suffered a bad leg sprain, quite close to the position of a Team vehicle monitoring the race. The man found walking difficult but was not in great pain when resting.

In the meantime, a runner suffered more serious lower leg injuries near the Pen y Gader summit. The woman was attended to by Team volunteers and race marshalls, and given her injuries a helicopter evacuation was requested. With the local Coast Guard helicopter already deployed elsewhere, R187 was dispatched from St. Athan in South Wales. The woman was airlifted to Bronglais Hospital for further assessment and treatment.

Once the summit incident was resolved, volunteers made their way downhill, and the runner at 560 was given a lift down the mountain in a Team vehicle.