Busy Weekend

So you'll know where I was if I tell you this is the view from the bar window. Beyond Llynnau Mymbyr you can see part of the Snowdon horseshoe with Y Lliwedd on the LHS...

This tells you what I was doing there..

It wasn't long before everything started to go wrong and there were accidents all over the place! Here Tim has fallen and hurt his head - he's barely conscious! A first aider anywhere?

It wasn't long before we all got injured, we had a para glider unconscious in a tree, I fell of a cliff (obviously!) at Stanage and injured both legs, my back and pride! There were people hypothermic at the bottom of No. 4 gully on the Ben! Lots of heart attacks, fits, even a severed hand! Everybody was being sick, with blocked airways and bleeding from everywhere! It was chaos! - But it's amazing what you can do with DR ABCDE, duct tape, and telling someone to MAN UP !


Okay so dusk is here and it'll soon be time to go to work

My view form the campsite of Tryfan.. Night will shortly be here - I can feel a Mountain Rescue scenario about to start - I think 6 Scouts doing D of E and their incomptent teacher are about to get lost, start falling down gullies, getting separated, and falling over!!! Luckily there is a group of Dorridge Explorers about to spring into action to perform the rescue - all they need is to be able to nav in the dark, pouring rain and poor vis!! Will be interesting - but everybody has radios, so will be fun too!

Starting at about 8 or 9pm, where's our search area?

We're here.... We need to be here... Let's go...

The next morning First aid continues, but now a whole new set of problems hit us. But always time to experiment with bubble wrap - so the question is - how much do you need to keep somebody warm (try this one at home when there's nothing on tv!)

He had a heavy night so was quick to volunteer for the blizzard bag experiment.. How long does it take to heat up - so , always take a blizzard bag and a bothy shelter (not to the PYB pub), luckily mine is still vacuum sealed, otherwise when out they can take up a complete 35litre rucsac - not efficient!!

When's my turn in the bag, I need to catch up on sleep.

Here he's saying 'just a few more mins - get your own b.. bag'
Later in the day, everybody got AMS, HAPE, HACE, sprains, strains, fractures, breaks, poisoned, burnt - and tea and cake from PYB at about 5pm - AWESOME ;)

So here we are, time for the first aid course again... It's PYB this time - 3 day Mountain first aid. It's gonna be a busy weekend... Course starts on Friday, a chance to meet Alex starting his MIA training on Fri night and all the other instructors around.. Conversation soon turned to snow, ice, axes, and Scotland - when will winter climbing start!! Everybody seems to be waiting for the same stuff (the white stuff!).

Non residential, so end up camping at the bottom of Tryfan - next to a group of Irish climbers - so climbing talk again. I can't enjoy a beer with them on Sat night at 6pm because I've got to be at work at 7pm with the Dorridge Scout Group from Birmingham - to help out with the night nav in their Mountain Rescue scenario.. The plan was to be done by midnight - but hey, finishing at 2am was cool (paid by the hour!). Everybody was happy, the lost D of E group of Scouts was found, and rescued from their precarious situation after their scenario fall down a cliff! Everybody had fun with their radios - and lots of lessons were learnt... Strangely it can be fun to be out in the pouring rain, in the dark, with poor vis. I had a lot of fun laughing as the coordinated chaos of the rescue proceeded... The North Wales hillside was covered in headtorches dashing about lol. .. Anyway that ended well and so did the first aid, all good...