Well, I know it has been a bank holiday weekend, and for the most part I have been working however early today I blogged about me sitting around and doing nothing. Enjoying the Lake and watch people climb Comes the Dervish, I have since found out who that was but more of that later.
Just after I blogged about my very relaxing day my pager went off so I head to the Mountain rescue base and quickly walked into Cryn Las to help a walker with a broken ankle, as we waited for the helicopter to lift that casualty another call out came in so I was quickly airlifted to the otherside of the mountain, to help another casualty with a broke ankle. Having packaged them both off the hill a third incident was called in. As I walked back to a land rover at the bottom of the rangers path, I thought my day was over as a all jobs complete came in.
As we passed Llanberis the fourth job came through, and I stayed in the vehicle and headed up the Miners track to the pump house where I waited and manned the radio. Just as that casualty was about to be lifted the fifth incident came in, a suspected heart attack. The helicopter quickly responded and managed to get that casualty to A&E and return to pick up the fourth before getting them to Ysbyty Gwynedd and back to Valley before they ran out of fuel.
A drive back to Nant Peris and the North Wales Police had footed the bill for a meal in the Vaynol Arms. As I walked in Climbing legend Johnny Dawes was there who said he had watch my Amateur Hardcore video and really enjoyed it. He was there with the Hot Aches crew, and a yank called Matt Segal, who tore the grit a part a few months back. Matt had been the person I had watched drift up the Dervish. He then went onto climb Gin Palace.
If that wasn’t enough, I also heard that Ryan Pasquill (sorry if I spelt that wrong) had onsighted The Medium and Window of Perception on the seamstress slab a couple of days early. That is a fantastic effort, and really good to see a couple of visiting climbers going for it in the sleepy back water that is North Wales. Well done boys!
I wonder how long they are over here for and what else they have on the cards!
The main point is my day wasn’t very relaxing!