Longdendale Trail

  • Call out for year: 3
  • Date: 7/04/14
  • Time: 5:00 pm
  • Grid ref: SK175 894
  • Type of incident: Mountain Biker Search lost (self report)(1)
  • Team members involved: 1
  • Time taken: 6 hrs 30 mins
  • Total man hours: 6 hrs 30 mins

Incident report

Search Dog, Megan, and her handler were called to asssit Edale, Woodhead and Glossop MRTS with a search for a mountain biker who had reported himself lost and cold above the Upper Derwent reservoirs.

An intensive search in poor weather of known mountain bike routes in addition to open moorland was conducted.

The biker was located cold, but otherwise unharmed, by a member of the public and members of Woodhead MRT.

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