Fifteen team members provided rescue cover for the annual Three Peaks Race, clocking up over 120 volunteer hours, over the day . They based themselves mainly in Horton in Ribblesdale, but with one on Pen y ghent summit and two each on Whernside and Ingleborough summits, co-operating with race marshals and RAYNET radio operators to ensure the safety of the runners. One (anonymous) runner was reported to be injured, but…
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INCIDENT 24/2022 – APRIL 18th Mon 16.55 Quarry Wood, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Ingleton, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident
A visitor (f, ) slipped, sustaining an ankle injury, in Quarry Wood, towards the end of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Team members walked in from Storrs Common and, having given mild pain-relief and splinted the lower leg, lifted the casualty in an insulated casualty bag onto a wheeled stretcher. She was wheeled to a team Land Rover, which carried her to the family car after she had opted to go…
INCIDENT 23/2022 – APRIL 17th Sun 19.00 Below Baxengill Gorge, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Ingleton, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident
A visitor (f, 60) fell, sustaining a knee injury, ‘between falls five and six at the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail’. As CRO controllers don’t have the falls numbered, a Phonefind text sent to her husband’s phone revealed their position as the path below Baxengill Gorge. Team members met at the Beezleys caravan park and, reaching the casualty, immobilised her leg, put her into an insulated casualty bag and carried her by…
INCIDENT 22/2022 – APRIL 17th Sun 11.42 Robin Proctor’s Scar, Austwick, North Yorkshire – Mountain Incident
When an alert beacon was activated, the owner’s home contact called her local Police, who forwarded the alert to North Yorkshire Police. The beacon indicated the Robin Proctor’s Scar area, so the CRO duty controller called available members to the team base, in Clapham. One member replied that he was out for a walk on Norber, so was asked to investigate. He found the owner of the beacon – a…