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Video – Crag Practice at Stanley Gill
A video of our crag skills training session at Stanley Gill, Eskdale on Sunday 22nd April.
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Rockfall nr Mickledore Gully
There has been a small rockfall to the side of the gully approaching Mickledore from the Woolworth Boulder and Hollowstones. The rockfall is just off the usual line of ascent but the debris is unstable and caution is recommended.
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Training with COMRU – 18th March 2012
On Sunday 18th March a Wasdale MRT representative attended a training session with Cumbria Ore Mines Rescue Unit (COMRU) at Knockmurton Iron Mine (No 9 Vein workings) at Lamplugh. Topics covered included: Surface practice of hauling systems using 3, 5 and 9 way pulley systems Pitch bolting – identification of sound rock, drilling techniques, hole clean-out, bolting and hanger placement Decent of Pitch and exploration of adits and stopes in No 9 vein workings Ascent Read more…
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Missing Dog in Wasdale
Update 10:20 Wednesday 29th – Muttley has now been found. See the comment from Glynn below for details. Original Post Adam Naylor from the Wasdale Head Inn contacted the team last night regarding a 4 year old boarder Terrier called Muttley that had gone missing in the Hollowstones area at around 1330 yesterday (Tuesday 28th February). The owners and staff from the Wasdale Head Inn mounted a search but could not locate him after 4 Read more…
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Winter Training on Scafell – 12th February 2012
The low cloud led to the cancellation of the planned helicopter practice with HMS Gannet on Sunday However, 13 team members took advantage of the conditions to brush up their winter skills. Whilst it was a warm day and the snow was beginning to soften there was plenty of ice on the broken ground to the right of Scafell Shamrock. Two groups ascended this picking out the best ice and then finished up Easy Gully Read more…
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Thank You For Two Donations
The team has recently been presented with two donations. The vast majority of the cost of running the team is met by donations. A regular income is required to maintain and purchase equipment and vehicles, as well as to fund training and more mundane expenses such as running our base. Yesterday, we received a kind donation of £200 raised by the B500 team at Sellafield today. Team Leaders Mike Gullen and Paul Cook collected the Read more…
Conditions Reports
Full on Winter Conditions
After the recent series of storms the fells are in full on winter conditions. Please make sure you go suitably equipped with ice axes and crampons if you are planning to cover steep ground.
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Bankside Training – River Derwent – 20 Nov 11
A video and pictures from a backside training session on the river Derwent.
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Will Sim Lecture 25th November
We are pleased to announce that Will Sim, one of the country’s leading alpinists will be giving a talk about some of his very impressive ascents at St Bees School Management Centre on Friday 25th November from 7pm. Refreshments will be available. Tickets £3.50 on the door or £2.50 in advance from Karen Greene or Doug & Liz Sim or in person at the Management Centre, St Bees School. ALL proceeds will go to the Read more…
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As the Clocks Change – Go Prepared
On Sunday at 02:00 the clocks will change giving us an extra hour in bed. This means that the sun will set before five and it will be dark by 5.30pm. It is worth remembering the importance of taking torches and spare batteries even if you are intending to be off the hill before nightfall. Any torches that have not been used since last winter should be checked and treated to fresh batteries. Being able Read more…
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Swift Water Rescue Training
The Team were successful with a grant application for £12,500 of rescue equipment – to try out the gear an exercise was held on the river Esk at Trough House Bridge which was filmed by ITV Border along with BBC Radio Cumbria interviews. The team now has 2 x six person swift water Recsue 3 technician teams plus a powered rib, inflatable platform and inflatable canoe for working inside flooded buildings – training is a major Read more…
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Kern Knotts Crack – £2,000 raised
Thank you to our supporters and team members who helped to make the weekend a success despite the atrocious weather conditions on the Saturday where the ‘Duck Race’ had to be postponed due to Mosedale beck being in full spate and too dangerous to use. In total the weekend raised £2109 for team funds. Below are some photographs and a video of the weekend.
Press Releases
A Long Day and Night
After a full day spent organising and running a fund raising day at Wasdale Head, including an auction that finished at 11.00pm members of Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team were relieved to be in their beds by midnight but not so relieved when they were called out at a quarter past midnight to rescue a gentleman attempting the Three Peaks Challenge who had slipped and tumbled about 30 feet into Skew Ghyll. The man was treated Read more…
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Team Well Represented at the Gosforth Show – 20th August
The team was well represented at the Gosforth Show last weekend. Plenty of raffle tickets were sold for the upcoming Kern Knotts Crack weekend.
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Deputy Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff Visits the Base – 17 August 2011
Iona Frost-Pennington and her husband Peter visited Millforge to understand a little more about the team and the way mountain rescue is organised regionally and nationally. Iona and Peter live at Muncaster Castle and together with her father own the estate. Recently she was appointed by the Queen as the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Cumbria. The Lord Lieutenancy role goes back many hundreds of years and is there to be present at all royal visits Read more…
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Lingmell Dash Fell Race – raising funds for the team – 23rd July 2011
A small but select band of runners assembled at the Wasdale Head Inn on Saturday for the tenth running of the 4.5 mile 2500ft Lingmell Dash Fell Race. This race combines fast flat running on the valley floor with a lung bursting climb to the summit where race organiser Tim Brooks (Wasdale MRT member) was sitting waiting for the runners ahead of the plummeting drop back to the finish. At 1400 Adam Naylor proprietor of Read more…
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Kern Knotts Crack Weekend 2nd – 4th Sept
The team is holding a fundraising weekend based at Wasdale Head over the weekend of the 2nd – 4th September. On Friday evening from 7pm Cat Like Thief and other bands will be playing. Saturday will see a wide variety of activities all day including Mountain Rescue displays, Art Workshop, Duck Race, Raffle, Treasure Hunt, Bouncy Castle & Live Music. At 9pm we will hold the auction of walking gear. Sunday will see a similar Read more…
Training
Training Over The River Esk – Monday 4th July 2011
Last Monday the team practised evacuating a casualty from a gorge or gully using a cableway. This involves setting up a rope system to manoeuvre a stretcher from one side to the other whilst also being able to raise and lower the stretcher. This post contains a fifteen minute video of the exercise.
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Scafell Pike Summit – A high point of the day or visit to to local tip?
Does the sight of such rubbish fill you with dismay? This is what happens every year when we have the three peaker hordes. I am sure that many other walkers are also to blame when they decide to unload their rucksacks and make the place look like a rubbish tip. Well done to those walkers who make the effort to take their own (and others) rubbish away.
WMRT in the media
BBC Article on Using a Photo to Locate a Casualty
A BBC News article about how a photo taken on a casualty’s phone enabled the team to locate them. This was the second rescue of the day and the middle of three in 24 hours. A Grough article on the rescue is available here. The story also featured in Saturday’s Telegraph.