Buxton Team Dog Handlers, Dave Mason and Nick Smith with Search Dogs Megan and Zak were called in the late evening to assist three rescue teams from Glossop, Kinder and Oldham with a search from the Snake Road.

The call started at 21.00 following a report of two males overdue from a day’s walking on Bleaklow Moor, north of the A57 Snake Pass Road. Heavy snow and wind caused white-out conditions for the rescue parties which were hampered by the severe risk of avalanche as fresh snow built up on the historic snow pack.

Three other Peak District search dogs were also deployed in …

Search Dog Megan with handler, Dave Mason called for a snowy night search of a golf course in Sheffield.   Four search dogs together with Woodhead and Edale MRTs were all called late at night to seek a 75 year old male suffering with Alzheimer’s Disease who had failed to return from a trip to the local shops in the afternoon. 

The weather was bitterly cold with temperatures below freezing and snow falling.  A member of the public remembered seeing the gentleman near the golf club in the afternoon so the search was concentrated …

Buxton and Edale Teams together called out 43 members and three search dogs to search Kinder Scout following the report of five people, including an eight year old child, lost on the moor.

The call-out at 17.50 followed an afternoon of low cloud, freezing temperatures and light snow which was beginning to blanket the hillside.  The group had set off from Barber Booth but became disorientated as darkness fell and they couldn’t find their way off the moor.   The party was known to be inadequately dressed and had little or no equipment to deal with …

Buxton Search Dogs Megan with Dave Mason and Zak with handler Nick Smith were called together with three other Peak District SARDA dog units to assist in locating five persons reported lost on Kinder Scout. 

The timely finding of the casualties meant that four of the dog units were not deployed on to the hill but Dave Mason and Megan were well committed searching up the Grindsbrook Valley before the stand-down. 

See Team Call-out 16.

Buxton MRT along with three other teams and three search dogs were called following a message from a man with his son lost on the Kinder plateau.

Operating from Edale, the team commenced a search of the southern edges for the man and his 13 year old son who had become disorientated in thick low cloud and darkness after a day’s walking.  Although in cell-phone contact with rescue control, the man was unable to give any clear indication of his whereabouts and a full scale search of the moor was commenced. 

Eventually the two, from Salford, Manchester, were located by a search dog …