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On Friday 23rd July OVMRO and NEWSAR jointly hosted the Mountain Rescue England & Wales (MREW) Day of Adventure on behalf of the North Wales Mountain Rescue Association. This brought together three charities of Princes William and Harry: MREW, WellChild and Centrepoint.
The day was a great success and was thoroughly enjoyed by all. It was lovely to see members of all three charities joining in together. The day was summed up by one overheard quote: "It was the best day of my life".
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Congratulations to team member Roger Jones on receiving an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List for services to Mountain Rescue. Well done Roger!
Entries for the 2010 Oggie 8 Challenge which is taking place on Saturday 7th August are now open. Entry forms can be downloaded on the Oggie 8 page. Last year's event raised well over £4000 for the team, and we look forward to receiving your entries for this year's challenge.
Ogwen Valley is the most northerly of the main valleys in the Snowdonia National Park, North Wales, UK. The mountains that surround the valley are about 1000 metres high and the terrain varies quite considerably. We have cliffs that reach about 300-400 metres in height and are very popular with climbers. The Carneddau mountains to the north of our base at Bryn Poeth (Oggie Base) are high and open, but there is also open moorland with heather, bracken and sheep, as well as areas of dense forest and fast rivers around Capel Curig. This mixture of terrain calls for the team members to be competent in both high angle rescue work as well as open terrain search techniques.
As a rescue team we have between 60-80 callouts per year. There are approximately 50 people on the team, all volunteers, many of whom are qualified to a high standard of First Aid. We also have a number of Search Managers and Swift Water Rescue technicians. Although we are completely independent of the Police we usually work at their request; Team Members are then contacted by telephone or pager. Our usual response time to an incident is typically 20 minutes before deploying someone on to the hill and a full team callout can be effected within 30 minutes. RAF Valley has a flight of two Seaking SAR Helicopters 20 minutes' flying time away and we often work together in rescuing and searching for people.
Wednesday 28 July 2010 - Crib Goch
Man with ankle injury on Crib Goch. LLMRT need assistance with possible stretcher carry
More details to follow...
Sat 31 July 09:00 Outreach/Oggie Base
NWMRA Technical Weekend
Sun 1 August 10:00 Oggie Base
Helicopter Training
Sun 1 August 10:00 Base/on the hill
TRR session TBC for those not requiring HELO
Wed 4 August 19:00 Base
Defib & resus
Sat 7 August 06:00 Oggie Base
Oggie 8 2010
Sun 22 August 10:00 Dolwyddelan
Summer Madness Walk
Sat 2 October 16:00 Tyn Y Coed, Capel Curig
333 AGM
Saturday 7th August 2010
The third annual Oggie 8 Challenge will be held on Saturday August 7th. This is a very popular fundraising event held over the major peaks of our area. Why not get a team together and join in?
The new Oggie webcams are now in place.
Click here to see all our cameras.
At 14:03 on 30/07/10 the weather conditions reported by our weather station were:
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| Rainfall rate | -0.2 mm/hr |
| Pressure | 1008.4 mb Falling Slowly |
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The area forecast at this time was:
Mostly cloudy with little temperature change. Precipitation likely. Windy with possible wind shift to the W, NW, or N.
Further details can be found on our weather page.
In an emergency dial 999 and ask for the police.
There have been 72 incidents involving 100 people so far this year, which is about one every 3 days.
Altogether there have been at least 1937 incidents involving 3065 people since 1961.