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Home Articles posted by Gordon Binnie (Page 2)

Callout – Beinn Dorain 9/2/2014

The team was called out this afternoon to rescue a walker stuck in difficult conditions on Ben Dorain. Team members walked up and found him safe and well and accompanied him off the hill.

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Gordon Binnie February 10, 2014 February 10, 2014Callouts, News

Rigging Training

Some pictures from our rigging and stretcher lowering training on Sunday in sunny Glen Noe.

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Gordon Binnie June 3, 2013 June 3, 2013News

New Website

Oban Mountain Rescue team are transitioning to a new website and webhosting. Please be patient as we develop our new home. You can in the interim keep up to date with the team via our Facebook page

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Gordon Binnie May 24, 2013 May 29, 2013News

Bowled a Bouncer!! – Michael’s Story

It has been almost two years since I so nearly paid the ultimate price for my passion for the mountains and the outdoors in general. While I was very lucky to survive a fall that on another day would have proved fatal, it is still very difficult to comprehend how…

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Gordon Binnie March 25, 2012 September 25, 2014Stories

Michael’s Story – rescuer’s account

Ian, Kenny and I took the landrover up the track that follows the River Tulla as far as the river crossing and left it there to strike out across the wooded hillside and railway line in direction of estimated location on edge of Coire an Lochain. We reckoned the railway…

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Gordon Binnie September 25, 2007 September 25, 2014Stories

Michael’s Story – Team Leader’s log

Michael Tunney Rescue – This is a basic timeline of the rescue from the position of the co ordinator of the rescue. in this case the Oban MRT team leader. 1643 Initial Callout: the details given were “Mobile phone callout from son. Father and 16 year old son, dad fell…

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Gordon Binnie September 25, 2007 September 25, 2014Uncategorized

The good, the bad and the Udlaigh…

Things were going quite peacefully over Christmas, no committee meetings, no arguing over what jackets the team should buy, no arguing where the landrover should be kept or who Kenny will allow to drive it! Lunchtime on Friday 4th January and I was talking to Kenny Harris in WH Smiths,…

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Gordon Binnie September 25, 2001 September 25, 2014Stories
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