Our Duty Controller was alerted by one of our members to a potential overdue caver in Cow Pot on Leck Fell. A number of cavers from nearby Bull Pot Farm (Red Rose caving club HQ) had gone out to try and locate the missing caver. We were then alerted by Cumbria Police to the same incident. One of our controllers went to Bull Pot Farm to investigate, and the team…
The Team received a call from one of our members at the Red Rose CPC hostel, at Bull Pot Farm, that a party of 8 cavers (2m and 6f, 20-29) on the ‘Easegill Traverse’ caving trip between Lancaster Hole and Wretched Rabbit were overdue. We were subsequently called by the North Yorkshire Police to assist with searching for the missing party. As the Team were being mobilised, local cavers did…
A caller to North Yorkshire Police reported three cavers (all m) several hours overdue from a trip into Gaping Gill, The CRO duty controller was unable to contact members of the caving club which organises the August winch meet, to ask whether they had any knowledge of the mispers, so asked a local member of the team to look for their car in Clapham. While she was doing this, the…
A group of two adults and six teenagers was reported overdue on a ‘pull-through’ trip from Simpson’s Pot to Valley Entrance in West Kingsdale. As team members were responding, news was received that they had just emerged, ‘safe and well’, so all stood down. Volunteer hours: 10
