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.

The search for a missing fisherman on the River Dyfi resumed, and the team contributed a large contingent of water and bank searchers.

At around 4:30 p.m. the team was asked to supply water search assets to join an ongoing search for a missing man thought to have been fishing on the river Dyfi near Machynlleth.

The multi-agency operation, with was headed by the Police and also included search teams from the Fire & Rescue and Coastguard services, and a trailing dog team from SARDA Wales, was stood down at dusk.