An injured biker and an outdoor swimmer were helped by Aberdyfi search and rescue team on Saturday.

At 10.30am, the team was called to help with the rescue of an injured motorcyclist near Happy Valley, Tywyn. The man, in his late 40s and from Northumbria, was part of a guided off-road motorbike group exploring a hill-track popular with green-lane groups when he came off his machine.

Other rescue team members were diverted to assist a walker with a leg injury on Cader Idris.

The last incident of the day saw a woman airlifted after swimming in Llyn Cau, midway up Cader Idris.

The woman from London was one of many outdoor swimming enthusiasts due to take part in the Hurly Burly event which centres on a swim from Barmouth to Penmaenpool on the Mawddach Estuary.

The event had been cancelled a couple of days earlier due to the forecast bad weather. The woman and her friend had decided to make the trip anyway. After a swim in Talyllyn and then at Llyn Cau, the pair were “underprepared” for the mountain environment in poor weather, the rescue team said.

“Shortly after leaving the water the woman went over on her ankle, and could no longer load-bear on it,” the team said.

“Cold from the swim, and underprepared for a long wait in poor weather, there was also the risk of hypothermia. Unable to get a phone signal at the incident site, the woman’s friend was forced to move further down the mountain to raise the alarm.”

The Coastguard rescue helicopter was called and took the woman to Ysbyty Gwynedd.