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,…

INCIDENT 87/2021 – NOVEMBER 28th SUN. 22.58  FIELD OPPOSITE TAITLANDS, (FORMER YOUTH HOSTEL), STAINFORTH – LOCAL INCIDENT

Yorkshire Ambulance Service asked for CRO’s assistance following an accident where someone (f, 51), sledging down a slope, collided with a wall, sustaining a serious ankle injury. When team members arrived, the ambulance paramedics had just helped the patient into the road ambulance and were treating her injury. Members and local helpers stood down. Volunteer hours: 11

INCIDENT 86/2021 – NOVEMBER 22nd MON. 18.56  above CRUMMACK, INGLEBOROUGH – MOUNTAIN INCIDENT

A walker, undertaking a solo round of the 3 -peaks walk, strayed from his intended path from the summit of Ingleborough and became benighted. CRO team leaders were able to contact the walker on his mobile phone; he gave a good description of his probable location, but added that he had left his torch in his car and could no longer see where he was going. The benighted walker was…