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Ross

@rossmacscot

Husband of 1 and dad of 3. Mountaineer, mountain rescue team member and mountain rescue search dog handler. Energy market professional in my spare time.

 Perthshire
Joined August 2009
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Half of the team was up in the Cairngorms, Winter Skills training at the weekend. After a couple of weeks of milder temperatures, wintery conditions had returned, enabling team members the opportunity to work together using crampons, ice axes and snow probes.
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Image from BSARU (@Border_SAR)
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Image from BSARU (@Border_SAR)
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Disappointing to see. I haven’t read it, but understand that Olive and I do not come out of it well.
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Merry #Christmas Eve from @royalairforceleeming MRT 👋 who are currently deployed and on-call in #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #RAFMRS #SearchAndRescue #SAR #MRT #MountainRescue #WHENSOEVER #APCIM #NextGenRAF
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🚨🚨🚨Callout🚨🚨🚨 to assist @TweedValleyMRT and @PoliceScotland along with @BWRTeam, @sardasearchdogs and a Police Scotland MRT in the search for a missing camper at St Mary's Loch. Successful search after a walker on the #southernuplandway came forward with a sighting.
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Search & Rescue We meet the mountain rescue volunteers who help bring the lost and injured back to safety. #scotnight at 8.30pm
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Same spot 22 hours later, summing up @ScotWinter 22 😞
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Fantastic @sardasearchdogs training weekend in the @NNPMRT area south of the border. Great weekend for all dogs, bodies and handlers. Working high on the hill on Saturday make for some interesting photos 💨. Many thanks to @WoolerYHA for hosting 🐾
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#dronesforgood Flying to the rescue: Scottish mountain teams are turning to drones | Scotland | The Guardian theguardian.com/uk-news/2022…
Flying to the rescue: Scottish mountain teams are turning to drones

Flying to the rescue: Scottish mountain teams are turning to drones

Drones are helping in searches across tricky terrain and their role could grow as technology improves

theguardian.com
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Early start today, great job @MoffatMRT 👏
Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT) profile pictureMoffat MRT@MoffatMRT31 Dec 2021
🚨🚨🚨Callout to Scotland's highest village🚨🚨🚨 Call by @NithsdalePolice to search for a missing man who failed to get home after a night out. Search with @galloway_mrt @scotfire_DG @SARAAScotland @PoliceScotland @sardasearchdogs located safely by members of the team🤠
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Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
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Callout 43 of 2021. Four dog teams, John/Rauour, Richard/Alfie, Ross/Evie, Alan/Molly were called out to assist @MoffatMRT early this morning. Thankfully the missing person was located by Moffat team members safe and well. #Workingtogether #ScottishMR
Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT) profile pictureMoffat MRT@MoffatMRT31 Dec 2021
🚨🚨🚨Callout to Scotland's highest village🚨🚨🚨 Call by @NithsdalePolice to search for a missing man who failed to get home after a night out. Search with @galloway_mrt @scotfire_DG @SARAAScotland @PoliceScotland @sardasearchdogs located safely by members of the team🤠
Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
Image from Moffat MRT (@MoffatMRT)
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In praise Search and Rescue Dogs (SARDA) and what they did at Lockerbie. heavywhalley.wordpress.com/2…
In praise Search and Rescue Dogs (SARDA) and what they did at Lockerbie.

In praise Search and Rescue Dogs (SARDA) and what they did at Lockerbie.

One of the most understated group of folk I have met. SARDA ( Search and Rescue Dogs) For many years they worked alone men and women and dog on the mountains searching for lost souls. As a member o…

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1/3 33 years on this evening we remember the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed over Lockerbie. Shortly after 19:00hrs on 21 December 1988, while the aircraft was in flight over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, it was destroyed by a bomb that had been planted on board....
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Emergency Services Santa Convoy today. Huge thanks to all the community for all their support over the past couple of difficult years. Special thanks to all who took part and @MacMairi2 for arranging it.@HMCGAC18 @WIslesPolice @GMGHammond1 @HebridesMRT @Scotambservice
Image from Roddy Macdonald (@farmerbassdrum)
Image from Roddy Macdonald (@farmerbassdrum)
Image from Roddy Macdonald (@farmerbassdrum)
Image from Roddy Macdonald (@farmerbassdrum)
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Tickets for skiing at @glencoemountain this weekend are now available to order online. Due to the limited skiing tickets are just £15. Only 100 available each day. glencoe.skicloud.co.uk/book/…
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❌Callout ❌ The team was called out to assist @ScotambSORT with the extraction of an injured walker in the Dollar area. Following a short stretcher carry on our rescue stretcher the casualty was transferred to a land ambulance. #workingtogether @ScottishMR
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Great work @Border_SAR #workingtogether
BSARU (@Border_SAR) profile pictureBSARU@Border_SAR11 Nov 2021
❌CALL OUT ❌ We were called out this morning by @PoliceScotland to assist @ScotambSORT with a challenging casualty evacuation through dense woodland in East Lothian, where a camper had fallen and injured their back. Great team work & we wish the casualty a speedy recovery!
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❌Callout ❌ The team was called out early this afternoon by @polscotcontrol to assist a walker who had taken a fall in the West Lomond area. The casualty was treated & packaged in our rescue stretcher and carried to @ScotAirAmb helimed 76 to be flown to hospital. @ScottishMR
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❌Callout ❌ Team were called out this am by @ForthValPolice to assist a walker who had slipped and suffered a severe leg injury in the Abbey Craig area. The walker was given pain relief, stretchered down the hill & taken to Forth Valley ED in our rescue ambulance #ScottishMR
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❌ CALLOUT ❌ The team was called out early this morning to an injured casualty in the Myretoun area. Members worked alongside the crew of Rescue helo 199 from @MCA_media to treat and evacuate the casualty from the hill. We wish the casualty a speedy recovery. #ScottishMR
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Image from Ochils Mountain Rescue Team (@OchilMRT)
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❌ CALLOUT ❌ The team was called out by @ForthValPolice this afternoon to assist an unwell walker in the Tillicoultry area. A hasty party went directly to the casualty’s location followed by other team members with additional medical equipment and our rescue stretcher. 1/2
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Image from Ochils Mountain Rescue Team (@OchilMRT)
Image from Ochils Mountain Rescue Team (@OchilMRT)
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