INCIDENT 54/2020 – Aug.17th Mon. 19.12hrs – Ingleton Quarry, Skirwith, Ingleton – Animal Incident

A dog was reported to have been spooked by an unusual noise whilst walking with it’s owners on a footpath near to Ingleton Quarry. The dog had bolted under the quarry boundary fence and fell about 10 metres down the quarry face on to a ledge. The quarry manager was informed, before a CRO team member was lowered on ropes down the quarry face to the ledge. The dog was…

INCIDENT 43/2020 – Jul. 30th Thu. 19.14hrs – Un-named shake-hole, Little Ingleborough – Animal Incident

A member of the walking party involved in incident no 42 said that they had seen a sheep, stuck in a shake-hole near the path down from Ingleborough to Little Ingleborough. Having turned out for one incident, a small group of team members agreed to stay out and rescue the sheep, rather than go home, then turn out again the following day. The team’s Honda Pioneer took them up the…

INCIDENT 30/2020 – Jul. 1st Wed. 15.01hrs – Fife Pot, Newby – Animal Incident

A report was received of a sheep ‘stuck down a hole  .  .  to the right of Pillar Holes’ on Newby Moss, Ingleborough. Four members, including two new members, carried out the rescue as a training exercise during the evening, rescuing the sheep from 15m down in Fife Pot. As farmers had cleared the fell of sheep, during the afternoon, this sheep was taken by trailer to the nearest farm…