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Family of 6 rescued from Houndkirk Moor

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mike142sl:
I hope this was not one of our number, but the local mountain rescue were called out yesterday to recover a family of 6 from Houndkirk Moor.

They had been sledging and decided to go home via Houndkirk in their Land Rover. If ever there was a bad decision when the normal roads were impassable.  :roll:

dxmedia:
They will have only got about 50m down the lane then from the fox house end. The drifts are far too deep.

Hardly a need to call mountain rescue  :roll: :roll: :roll: Walk to the large pub which is about 10 minutes and clearly visible and call a taxi with your tail between your legs.
Maybe a knock on the outdoor pursuits center at the bottom of the lane and see if one of their 110's would be so kind as to pull them out.

If they were at the ringinglow end, then from where the drifts make it impassible at the top of Lady Cannings plantation, it's about a 10 minute walk to the Norfolk Arms and again a taxi.  They wouldn't have been able to get any further up the lane than that from both ends, it's impassible.

Hope they get charged with wasting mountain rescue's time IMO, unless of course one of the party was injured / diabled in which case totally different matter.

Oh the locals sledge on the hill at the ringinglow end of houndkirk on the field directly opposite the end of the land (across the road), so if they were sledging there, they were local, and knew where the pubs were.  :roll: :roll:

andyhubbard:
They were not local and in the driver's own words ''we'd been sledging and decided to go for a drive in the snow''?, they were stuck there for 3 hours. I hope it's no one on here because i was not with the mountain rescue team but was on standby close by to assist with a local doctor,this as we were coming towards the end of a ten hour shift and yes i'm supposed to pass judgement but watching some of the idoits at the weekend started to get very annoying :evil:.
People really need to take notice that if it says the road is closed it means just that,rant over.

jay2578:
you mountain rescue guys and gals do a sterling job, but people who abuse the service through their own stupidity should be made to pay a fee/make a substantial donation which would maybe make them think twice about "going for a drive in the snow"

Disco Matt:
Time and again it seems to come down to non-locals getting into trouble (happens on Snowdon and the Beacons a fair bit too).

"Going for a drive in the snow" is fine if you know the area well and have another vehicle or two handy in case you need it. In event of one of you getting bellied out on a drift, the truck behind can tow you out or at least get everyone home. Just treat it like a laning trip but with more food and clothing.

Going out solo in an area that is being widely reported as having major snow problems is just daft, however!

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