At around 5:50 p.m. the Team was requested to assist our neighbours from Brecon Mountain Rescue Team in the rescue of an injured walker in Hafran Forest, near Staylittle.
The 62 year old woman had slipped and fallen on an icy patch whilst following the Severn Way footpath, and had sustained lower-leg injuries. In an operation involving volunteers from Brecon, Longtown and Central Beacons teams, personnel battled with sometimes unclear and conflicting details about the accident site in order to converge on the casulaties location. The injured woman was treated on scene and stretchered to a MR Landrover, and the other 8 members of the party, by now also very cold themselves, were driven out of the forest in Team vehicles. Everyone was out of the forest by 8:45 p.m. but it would be more than an hour later before the most northern members of Aberdyfi made it home.
The 62 year old woman had slipped and fallen on an icy patch whilst following the Severn Way footpath, and had sustained lower-leg injuries. In an operation involving volunteers from Brecon, Longtown and Central Beacons teams, personnel battled with sometimes unclear and conflicting details about the accident site in order to converge on the casulaties location. The injured woman was treated on scene and stretchered to a MR Landrover, and the other 8 members of the party, by now also very cold themselves, were driven out of the forest in Team vehicles. Everyone was out of the forest by 8:45 p.m. but it would be more than an hour later before the most northern members of Aberdyfi made it home.