A group of cyclists spent the night on the fells after losing their way.
Keswick Mountain Rescue Team were among the volunteers called when the family group of six, some as young as 16, failed to arrive at the Wasdale Head Inn to meet relatives at 9pm on Tuesday.
They had hired bikes in Windermere earlier that day and despite advice not to ride to Wasdale Head from the bike shop owner, embarked on the journey.
They did not give a detailed route plan and had unsuitable clothing for the conditions and took minimal provisions, the mountain rescue team said.
The RAF were also on standby.
Attempts to contact them failed and team leaders from Wasdale, Keswick, Duddon and Furness and Langdale Ambleside mountain rescue teams agreed that a search that evening would be “looking for a needle in a haystack” and the party may not even be in the mountains.
Members drove roads most likely to be used by cyclists, but saw no sign of the party and the teams were stood down at 1.30am.
The search restarted at 7am and at 8.30am, police informed the teams that the people had been found.
They had spent the night outside, after becoming lost at Esk Hause. They had pressed on with the bikes as far as the boulder fields of Broad Crag before abandoning the bikes and continuing onto the Corridor Route where they went to ground until first light. They then continued onto the Wasdale Head Inn.
On Wednesday at 12.39pm, Keswick Mountain Rescue Team members were called out after a 22-year-old woman had walked up Skelgill Bank, the first ‘summit’ of Catbells, from Hawes End.
In windy and wet conditions on the descent she slipped and injured her ankle and was unable to continue so called for mountain rescue help.
Two vehicles attended with team members initially climbing towards the main summit from Skelgill due to the casualty’s reported position as near the summit.
A phone-find search revealed her true location below Skelgill Bank. The casualty was assessed, her ankle splinted and then she was loaded onto a stretcher for the carry down.
The casualty was transported to Keswick Cottage Hospital to await an ambulance for onward travel to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
