A caller, living over 200 miles away, where there had been heavy rain and flooding, was unable to phone his son (35) who had intended exploring Bull Pot of the Witches. He therefore contacted Cumbria Police, concerned about his son’s safety, some three hours earlier than their agreed ‘call-out time’. He was unaware that there had been little or no rain in the Casterton area that day and that only…
A well-intentioned walker expressed the concern of several visitors that an ‘elderly’ couple were struggling on the return leg of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail and believed that one of the pair may have had a fall, already. When the CRO duty controller asked team members to show their availability for a local search, one gave a description of two people he had seen returning to their car and driving away.…
Swaledale MRT passed on a request from North Yorkshire Police to investigate the sighting, by someone in Horton in Ribblesdale, of ‘large pieces of blue material’ at the side of the path on Pen y ghent. The observer, using binoculars, believed that he may be seeing a crashed hang-glider. A local team member joined him but could not identify what he was looking at. A team Land Rover took two…
A walker who found a fully-laden rucksac leaning against a wall corner below Attermire Scar, having shouted around over a period of about 20 minutes and hearing no response, asked for advice. Having then identified the owner as Dutch, he was advised to close up the sac and leave it. A while later, the duty controller asked a group of walkers who would be going past to let him know…
