At around 2:45 p.m.  the team was informed of a 20 year old woman who had fallen down a crevice a short distance from the summit of Cadair Idris.

Early reports suggested that the woman, who was uninjured, had been trying to retrieve a dog, but had become crag-fast around Pencoed Pillar and was unable to recover herself.

The Team was called out and gathered at the base of the Minffordd Path. The RAF Sea King, Rescue 122, was also able to offer assistance, and the initial intention was to uplift a crag-rescue party to the scene of the incident. The helicopter crew made an initial fly-by assessment of the incident, and were able to resolve the situation themselves by winching both the woman and the dog to the top of the gulley where they were able to make their own way off the mountain.

At about 4:00 p.m., once it was clear that no further assistance was required, the Team were stood down.

At around 10 p.m. the team was made aware of a group of 3 lost walkers on Cadair Idris. The alarm had been raised by the father of one of the group, who reported that his son was lost in the mist and could not find a path. Volunteers from the Team were put on Standby as information was gathered, but were stood down about 30 min. later when the party turned up safe and well.

At around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday 10th May, Aberdyfi Search and Rescue Team (ASART) were alerted to a man with a serious leg injury near Aran Fawddwy in Southern Snowdonia.

The man was one of a party taking part in gorge-scrambling amongst the waterfalls on the Llaethnant on the upper reaches of the Dyfi river. He slipped and fell down a bank into a rockpool amongst the falls, sustaining a suspected fractured femur.

Volunteers from ASART were called to attend the incident, as was Rescue 122, the RAF Sea King helicopter from RAF Valley, and both parties arrived at around the same time. In poor and worsening weather conditions, the casualty was quickly assessed, and his injured leg was stabilised with a traction splint. Given the potential seriousness of the injury, the casualty was rapidly evacuated to the awaiting helicopter for transfer to hospital based emergency care.

Everyone was down off the hill by around 8:00 p.m.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-27362020

At around 3:15 pm on Monday 5th of May, volunteers from Aberdyfi Search & Rescue Team (ASART) were made aware of a dog that had fallen down the cliffs at the side of the Minffordd path in the Pencoed area of the south ridge of Cadair Idris in Southern Snowdonia.

The dog, a Labrador-cross called Taz, had been enjoying a day on the mountain with his owners, a couple from near Bristol in Gloucestershire. Whilst descending the difficult ground of the scree on Pencoed, the couple had decided that it would be safer to release Taz from his lead, only to watch in horror as he disappeared down one of the gulleys sliced into the cliff-face. Some distant wimpering and an occasional bark suggested that Taz had survived, and had not fallen the full cliff height, and the assistance of Mountain Rescue was sought.

A party of ASART volunteers, along with Snowdonia National Park Rangers, made their way onto the hill and set about the task of locating the dog. Some of the group headed to the far shore of Llyn Cau at the base of the cliff to see if Taz could be spotted, while another party headed to the cliff-top where, in deteriorating weather conditions, they began the process of searching the many gulleys in the area. On the edge of nightfall, Taz was spotted on a small ledge 130m down the cliff face, but with encroaching darkness and insufficient equipment for the scale of the task, the hard decision was taken to withdraw until morning.

At 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday 6th of May, a further team of ASART volunteers headed up the mountain, this time lugging the considerable weight of a full crag-rescue kit. The technical rope rescue equipment takes time and concentration to set up, and it was well into the morning before the team were ready to send two rescuers down the cliff face. The crew manning the ropes at the top of the cliff, and those at operation control, waited to hear what scene awaited the rescuers as they approached the ledge. All involved were finally rewarded with ‘Taz has just eaten a biscuit’ coming over the radio.

It is perhaps not the most dignified of strategies, but Taz was placed in a big secure canvas bag for the ride, and the whole party were hoisted back to the cliff top. A quick survey of one very happy dog showed no more than a few bumps and scrapes to speak of his ordeal, and Taz was able to walk down the mountain unassisted, to be reunited with his equally happy owners.
 
Everyone was down off the mountain by about 2:30 pm

According to our walking archive, this was the 39th Dog rescued by the Team

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-27305141

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