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The team were called out  around 7pm to search for two walkers who had got benighted and lost in cloud on the Ben Achallader - Ben a Creachain ridge. They were not carrying head torches, map or compass and lost their bearings in the dark and cloud.

Several pairs of team members began searching the ridge from either end. Fortunately for the lost walkers one of them managed to download a smart phone app that allowed him to find their latitude and longtitude co-ordinates via his phone GPS. The callout manager had been in touch with them when the callout first came in and so they had his home phone number. They called this and gave their co-ordinates to his wife who relayed them to the callout manager via Oban police. He converted them to ordnance survey grid references and pinpointed them on top of Ben a Creachain. He then radio'd the teams on the hill to tell them to make for the walkers location. They were eventually found just before midnight, cold but otherwise well, and escorted off the hill by 2am.

Callout came at 1539. 46 year old male with possible broken ankle on Northern slopes of Ben Sguillard. Had got into difficult steep ground on way off the top, tripped and fell, injuring his ankle.

Rescue 177 helicopter from HMS Gannet, Prestwick joined the team at 1705 and flew 3 members up the hill. They were winched down to casualty along with winchman and gave him treatment before he and everyone were all winched back on board and brought back to rv. Casualty was then taken to Belford Hospital in Fort William where he was found to have a bad sprain and fortunately no fracture. Everyone returned home by 7pm.

The team were called out at 0228 to search for and rescue 2 people stuck on Ben Sgulaird. 

Usual team callout procedures were thwarted by lack of operational mobile phone masts after the previous Thursday's storm. So most of the team were mustered via their landlines.

The walkers torch lights were quickly spotted just below the summit of the ben above Glen Ure Farm on very steep craggy ground. Team members were dispatched up the hill to approach the walkers from above with security ropes etc. 

At  0450 Rescue 137 sea king helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth arrived and was able to winch the two men off the hill. Both were fine and well equipped but cold having been stuck on the hill since before 5pm the previous evening. They had tried to descend the hill by a direct route into the glen and become stuck and had decided to sit it out on a small snow ledge. They had tried to send a 999 call and text by mobile but had also been thwarted by the lack of mobile phone reception. They had been flashing their torch on and of all night but not seen by anyone. Fortunately one of their wives alerted police when the pair had not returned home according to the times on their route card. 

All of the team were off the hill by 0530 and home by 0700hrs.