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Winter Conditions Advice
This video contains some important advice for walkers planning to visit the fells in winter conditions.
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Whitehaven School Fundraising CD
Whitehaven School music department have produced a CD Featuring music from four pupils. Priced at £4 per CD it is available from Mrs Fitzsimons in the Music Department. All proceeds to Wasdale Mountain Rescue and The Ryan Smith Rising Sun Trust. 4 tracks including: Traffic Trapped Honeysuckle How Strong Am I? To buy your copy please contact sfitzsimons@whitehaven.cumbria.sch.uk
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Wasdale Show
Last weekend the team attended the Wasdale Show. Mike summed it up on Facebook with: Excellent day at the Wasdale Head show! We welcomed Joe Beaumont across the finish line and thanked him for his amazing effort cycling across England! Pictures to follow! We were also presented with a cheque for £1,500 from the Wasdale Head Inn! Big thank you to all! Below are some photos taken on the day.
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Lighting the Paralympic torch on Scafell Pike
The following is a copy of Mark Ollis’ blog post written about the lighting of the Paralympic flame on the summit of Scafell Pike Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team were approached to accompany the party and arrange professional mountain guides with costs covered by LOCOG. Penny Kirby guided (also a member and leader of WMRT), along with Matthew LeVoi (a team supporter) and Richard Warren and myself, Mark Ollis, assisted. As it happened the weather was Read more…
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Rambo’s Runners Raising Money In Lee’s Memory
A group of family and friends of Lee Jones have been raising funds for the team following Lee’s tragic accident last winter. In recognition of the outstanding effort of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team, the family and friends of Lee Jones are undertaking a series of fund raising events throughout the following twelve months. The first of which was a 10 K Royal Marine obstacle course. We hope you enjoy the following photographs. Having visited Read more…
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£500 Donation from Sellafield Limited
On Wednesday 27th of June a group of team members were presented with a cheque for five hundred pounds by Sellafield Limited. This was a donation to mark one million hours worked without a lost time accident. This money will go towards our running costs which are funded by donations and fundraising.
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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.