Better a couple of days late than not at all, here is an instant summary of 2021. A full and illustrated account of CRO’s year will appear in Rescue 2022, to be published in March. We shall also be running a new safety campaign in the Spring, so ‘Watch this space!’. With 89 incidents (4 fatal) and 11 ‘alerts’ (Call received, but resolved without outdoor action.), 2021 was a reasonably ‘normal’…
Author: CRO3
INCIDENT 89/2021 – DECEMBER 26th SUN. 13.26 NR. PECCA BRIDGE, INGLETON WATERFALLS TRAIL – ANIMAL INCIDENT
While taking his human for a Boxing Day walk on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Meatball, an Irish Wheaten Terrier, fell about 10m into the river just upstream of Pecca Bridge. Although uninjured, he could not regain the path, so scrabbled out onto a slippery, sloping ledge in a distressed state. His owner called North Yorkshire Police for assistance and they, in turn, called CRO. Once the location was confirmed, two members…
INCIDENT 88/2021 – DECEMBER 23rd THU. 15.43 NR. THORNTON FORCE, THORNTON IN LONSDALE – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT
A visitor (m, 20) to the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail was reported to be ‘struggling with fatigue and now feeling unwell’, having been walking for two and a half hours, from Ingleton. Once the duty controller had confirmed with the party that they were on the path above Thornton Force, team members met on the green lane, higher up, and descended to find the casualty and three companions. After being assessed,…
ALERT Only – Dec. 11th Sat. 20.11 – Sell Gill Holes, Horton in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire – Alert No. 10 of 2021
Four cavers (all m, early twenties) were reported overdue on a trip into Sell Gill Holes. Team members were put on stand-by while the duty controller made enquiries, but the reporting person soon told him that two of the party were out of the hole, the other two were de-tackling the route out and all were safe. Team members were thanked and stood down. It seems that the group’s exit…