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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.
The new webcam system is now live and is uploading images here. We are still working on getting a reliable internet connection from base, so please bear with us if there is sometimes a delay uploading images.
We have just added a sponsorship section to the site which allows you to register and add events which you are participating in. Friends, family and members of the public can then sponsor you through the site.
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.
Monday 8 March 2010 - Bochlwyd
Male stuck on ice on descent from Cwm Bochlwyd
More details to follow...
Wed 10 March 19:00 Base
First Aid - Mandatory (2)
Sat 13 March 10:00 Plas y Brenin
AGM
Sat 13 March 19:00 Waterloo, Betws-y-Coed
Annual Dinner
Wed 17 March 19:00 Base
First Aid - Mandatory (3)
Sat 20 March 08:00 NEWSAR's Base
NWMRA SEARCH AWARENESS/ SEARCH SKILLS COURSE AND JOINT EXERCISE
Sun 9 May 09:45 Bryn Poeth
Tracking Day
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.
Thursday, 11th February 2010 03:20
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Updated every five minutes.
In an emergency dial 999 and ask for the police.
There have been 17 incidents involving 25 people so far this year, which is about one every 4 days.
Altogether there have been at least 1882 incidents involving 2990 people since 1961.
