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  2. Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Scottish Mountain Rescue consists of 21 volunteer mountain rescue teams, 2 search and rescue dog associations (SARDA) with over 1000 volunteers, plus an additional 3 police teams, 1 RAF team and Scottish Cave Rescue. [2] The Mountain Rescue Committee of Scotland (MRCofS) was formed in 1965. [2] It is a registered charity (number SC015257). In ...

  3. Mountain Bothies Association - Wikipedia

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    The Mountain Bothies Association (MBA) is a Scottish registered charity. [1] It looks after 104 bothies and two emergency mountain shelters (not to be mistaken for or confused with a mountain hut, as the Fords of Avon and Garbh Choire refuges are little more than a heavily weather protected shed). [2]

  4. Cairngorm Plateau disaster - Wikipedia

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    View south from near the scene of the 1971 disaster (this photograph was taken in winter 1992) The Cairngorm Plateau disaster, also known as the Feith Buidhe disaster, occurred in November 1971 when six fifteen-year-old Edinburgh school students and their two leaders were on a two-day navigational expedition in a remote area of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands.

  5. Mountain rescue - Wikipedia

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    Many paid and volunteer professional mountain SAR teams are part of the Mountain Rescue Association (MRA) and operate under the authority of the local sheriff's department (approximately 42 of the 50 states) or state police or emergency management agency. Member teams are required to regularly reaccredit in three disciplines: technical rope ...

  6. List of Mountain Bothies Association bothies - Wikipedia

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    The Mountain Bothies Association was established in 1965, becoming a Scottish charity in 1975, to take on the basic care and maintenance of some of these shelters, with the cooperation of the owners who sometimes help financially. [5] The first bothy to be restored was Tunskeen. [6]

  7. Mountain fire: Evacuations, road closures, shelters, school ...

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    The Mountain fire in Ventura County has grown to 9,000 acres and injured several people, who were hospitalized. Mountain fire: Evacuations, road closures, shelters, school closures Skip to main ...

  8. Bothy - Wikipedia

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    There are thousands of examples to draw from. A typical Scottish bothy is the Salmon Fisherman's Bothy, Newtonhill, which is perched above the Burn of Elsick near its mouth at the North Sea. [3] Another Scottish example from the peak of the salmon fishing in the 1890s is the fisherman's bothy at the mouth of the Burn of Muchalls.

  9. Cameron McNeish - Wikipedia

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    Cameron McNeish. Cameron McNeish FRSGS is a Scottish wilderness hiker, backpacker and mountaineer who is an authority on outdoor pursuits. In this field he is best known as an author and broadcaster although he is also a magazine editor, lecturer and after dinner speaker as well as being an adviser to various outdoor organisations.