A family visiting the waterfalls walk reported themselves lost in woodland. The CRO Duty Controller was able to contact the family on their mobile phone and established that they had found their way to Ingleton and were being directed to the waterfalls car park by a passerby. Volunteer hours: 0.5
Two walkers became separated from a larger group on the last leg of the Three Peaks Walk, heading from Ingleborough to Horton in Ribblesdale. With no map and only a page and a half of typescript describing the whole route, they descended, mistakenly, via Little Ingleborough and past Gaping Gill.
A visitor (f, 22), having almost completed the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, slipped on the path below Storrs Common, sustaining a suspected fracture of the left ankle. After treatment by YAS paramedics, she was stretchered to a team vehicle, then driven to the Community Centre car park, transferred to a road
A walker (m, 48) slipped on steep ground, sustaining a dislocation fracture to his right ankle. Another walker used his 'personal locator beacon' to call for help. The call was directed, initially, to Upper Wharfedale Rescue Association, then to Swaledale MRT and then to CRO. On seeing the severity of
A woman reported that her daughter, undertaking the 3 Yorkshire Peaks alone, was stuck 'near a steep drop', 'somewhere on Ingleborough', with a failing phone battery. With thick cloud limiting visibility to about 5 metres, the walker had lost confidence and was unable to find her way off, having only
A visitor to the winch meet at Gaping Gill slipped as they were approaching the site, sustaining an injury to their left knee which left them unable to bare weight on the leg. A team vehicle with 2 members on board was despatched. After assessing the injury, the casualty was
A caller contacted North Yorkshire Police to 'express concern' for 2 male walkers she had seen some 2 and a half hours earlier on Ingleborough, because they looked as though they were 'struggling and not well equipped'. Given the time elapsed, and the fact that 'struggling and not well equipped'
A 71yo, whilst assisting with a group of paragliding enthusiasts, slipped on rocks and sustained a deep laceration to his right shin, and was unable to walk. The team conveyed a Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedic to the casualties location, and then packaged the casualty for sledging by stretcher back to
Two walkers (f,43; f,39) reported themselves 'lost and losing daylight', but gave a (correct) ten figure grid reference for their position, within 100m of 'Sulber Crossroads'. While the duty controller was trying to contact them, they told North Yorkshire Police that they both had a phone signal and a torch,
A visitor reported her elderly parents missing on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Unable to call her back and with the 'mispers' having no phone, the duty controller (resident in Ingleton) popped out to look for them. Just as a CRO colleague was checking that the Police had no more specific
