Aled Treharne on December 18th, 2008

Every year the Mountain Rescue team get together and have our Christmas party. It’s a bit of a tradition that we stand down for the night and celebrate the year in good spirits – and one of our traditions is the dishing out of appropriate awards to celebrate the funnier side of Mountain Rescue life. […]

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Aled Treharne on November 27th, 2008

Nice simple callout for me today. We had an area call in the Neath valley for a young lady with a dislocated patella. In the pouring rain, I helped carry off the young girl, everything else was pretty much taken care of. Not much more to say than that really, nice job for us – […]

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Aled Treharne on September 2nd, 2008

I was hard at work in the office when my pager went off this afternoon with a head’s up message from Penny. I checked my calendar but I had a conference call I had to attend coming up. After that however… The pager went off again just before the conference call – search for a […]

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Aled Treharne on August 2nd, 2008

With my own personal website toddling along quite nicely, we’ve been looking recently at the Mountain Rescue team’s website (www.cbmrt.org.uk). It’s been several years now since we rolled out that website – technology’s moved on a bit, someone released the next version of the web (avoid 2.1, it’s very buggy) and to be honest, although […]

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Aled Treharne on June 24th, 2008

Last September I blogged about a search that we had in Tycroes in West Wales. According to the BBC the case just reached court. Some of the things in that article are quite rough to have to read. The violence with which he beat her seems unbelievable given that while we were searching it rapidly became […]

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Aled Treharne on June 23rd, 2008

Hayfever is hitting me pretty hard this year – I’ve had a number of people comment that they’re finding it difficult to cope as well, so it looks like there’s seriously potent pollen out there for some reason. As a result, I’ve not been spending much time outdoors, but I decided to partake in this […]

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Aled Treharne on June 8th, 2008

First responders seems to be quietening down at the moment and Mountain Rescue’s getting busier! We’re up to our forty-something-th callout already this year – we’re well on track to be amongst the busiest teams in the country and this weekend’s contributing heavily to that number. Last night, just after midnight, while Sean and I […]

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The past few weeks have been mostly unbroken by shrill beeping of the pager with the exception of the regular Thursday night tests. That is, until Saturday. And it’s been a bizarre series of callouts. After doing my Ambulance shift on Saturday, I headed up to Aberystwyth. Sean and I headed out to a Greek […]

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Aled Treharne on May 8th, 2008

Sorry I’ve been quiet recently but the last few weeks have been pretty chaotic. Today, however, deserves a post of its own First of all my car died. I ended up renting one for a week, followed by borrowing one from a used car dealership that was able to get me out of a very […]

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Aled Treharne on April 25th, 2008

I can’t believe it’s been almost a month since I posted anything here. So much has happened recently… I’ve not really been responding with the First Responders recently because of something that happened to me that has caused huge repercussions through my whole life – my car died. Now, I believe in Bangernomics – running […]

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