At around 12:45 p.m. the Team was called to assist a walker with an ankle injury at Dolgoch Falls near Tywyn.

The walker, a 71 year old man, had slipped and injured his ankle whilst out with a family group at the popular attraction. His location, some distance up the valley, meant that the ambulance service was unable to access his location.

After initial examination and treatment, Team volunteers  loaded the man onto a stretcher and transported him off the mountain, from where family members were able to drive him to hospital for further examination and treatment.

Everyone was off the hill by 3:00 p.m.

At around 4:20 p.m., call handlers from the Team were made aware of a woman with an ankle injury on Cader Idris.

Call handlers spoke to the partner of the 51 year old woman, who was with her on the hill, and obtained a fairly specific description of the path they were on and distances from a key feature. This differed slightly from the description provided to North Wales Police, but not greatly so.

As the first volunteers from the team were making their way up the hill to the casualty site, they encountered a walker coming down off the mountain who said he had recently passed the pair on a completely different part of the mountain. Whilst Team members followed up this new report, others continued searching the originally reported area to no avail.

Eventually, the injured woman and partner were located at the position described by the walker, high on the slopes on Mynydd Moel, on a different path, more than a kilometer away and more than 350m higher than the position given.

Given the elevated position and encroaching nightfall, the coastguard helicopter, Rescue936 was requested, and the lady was evacuated by air to Ysbwty Gwynedd for further assessment and treatment. Everyone was safely off the hill by 8:30 p.m.

Team volunteer Graham O'Hanlon attended the rescue. "Without the chance encounter with the walker, and having had such a specific first-hand description of location, we would have expended a great deal of effort combing the first area. The operation would have eventually expanded, but it would have been some time before we started searching areas that far removed from the described point." 

​At around 7:30 p.m. the Team was made aware of two walkers lost on Cader Idris

The husband and wife, both in their 20's and from Suffolk, had climbed the mountain via the Minffordd path. Having reached the summit and started their descent, they had become lost in the low cloud and drizzle, and their predicament was further compounded as darkness fell. Neither had clothing or equipment suitable for the mountain environment or the forecast weather conditions.

As rescue volunteers made their way up both sides of the mountain, Team call-handlers were able to make use of the SARLOC smartphone protocol to get a location for the pair, and this information was confirmed when the pair came across one of the national park grid-reference discs placed on fences and stiles around the mountain. With this information to hand, rescuers were directed to the cold, wet but otherwise uninjured pair, and having been dressed in warm dry clothing, they were escorted down off the mountain. Everyone was safely back at vehicles by 11:00 p.m.

​Just before 9:00 p.m. the Team was requested to assist North East Wales Search & Rescue Team in the rescue of two injured teenagers to the east of Bala.

The two women were part of a group of 6 taking part in a Duke of Edinburgh expedition, and all were sheltered in a tent. The group had been visited by their DoE supervisor earlier in the evening who identified the need for a rescue and raised the alarm.

Parties of rescue volunteers were deployed onto the hill, but it was soon apparent that the casualties were not at the location given in the initial request for help. In poor visibility and with very difficult ground conditions an area search was undertaken, and at 12:40 a.m. the party was eventually located almost a kilometer away.

The two casualties were assessed by casualty carers at the scene. One woman, with an injured ankle, was carried from the scene by stretcher whilst the other, with a twisted knee was able to walk off with some assistance. The entire party was evacuated from their campsite and back to awaiting vehicles, making it back to be with their Leaders by 3:40 a.m.

​At around 6:00 a.m., Team call-handlers were contacted by North Wales Police with regard to missing person.

The man, a 30 year old French tourist, had been missing since Sunday when he failed to return to his hotel in Bala, and ongoing NWP investigations had led to the discovery of his car in the Minffordd car-park, a popular trail-head for Cader Idris.

With an extensive search area to cover, and with bad weather forecast for later in the day, the team requested and received assistance from the Coastguard helicopter, R936, from our neighbouring team South Snowdonia Search & Rescue and from Search and Rescue Dogs (SARDA Wales) Izzy, Izzy and Spin.
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With teams deployed on foot and in the air, "finds" of lost equipment on the mountain proved inconclusive or unrelated. Finally Search Dog Izzy, a trailing-dog trained to pick up the specific scent of a missing person, indicated that the had found scent, giving the first good evidence that the man was on the mountain, and an indication which path he had taken.

With this evidence, along with information gathered relating to mobile phone mast data, the search area was narrowed and,just before 1.00 p.m., Rescue936 reported that they had sighted a body on steep craggy ground above llyn Cau.

A party of Team volunteers was winched onto the crag, and discovered that the man had not survived his ordeal. In difficult conditions of terrain, and as other parties of volunteers waited nearby in case the deteriorating weather meant R936 was unable to operate, Team members loaded the man onto a stretcher. With the weather closing-in fast he  was then winched into R936 and lifted down off the mountain. The helicopter then returned  to lift the stretcher-party off the crag.

All were down off the mountain by 5:30 p.m.