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 Consider how your group members or passers-by can best be deployed, and how the equipment carried by the group can best be redistributed and utilised.

 Consider ‘alternative’ uses for the equipment you are carrying, for example camera flashes can be used to attract attention in the dark, a rope laid out along the ground will maximise your chances of being located in poor visibility, and a survival bag can be used for attracting attention.

 The standard distress signal is six sharp whistle blasts (or torch flashes) followed by a one-minute silence, repeated.

 Don’t lose touch with common sense when coming to any decisions!

Weather to walk?

Mountains everywhere tend to generate their own micro-climate, while remaining subject to whatever is going on nationally. So, while out in the Pennines, whether on the tops or in the valleys, you need always to be aware of what is happening to the weather: is the wind changing direction?; are clouds gathering?; is it getting hotter or colder? Make allowance for the fact that conditions on the tops are generally more severe than in the valleys.