A mountain biker sustained a deep cut to his knee when his front wheel slipped on some wet rock and he went over the handlebars while cycling the Borrowdale Bash circuit.
The incident this lunchtime was said by Keswick mountain rescue team to have happened “on a fairly innocuous part of the track” above Seatoller.
His cycling partner happened to meet the leader of the mountain rescue team, who just happened to be in the area, while trying to get a phone signal.
Team members made their way to the casualty site and after treatment stretchered the man to the mountain rescue vehicles parked half way up Honister Pass.
He was transported to the Keswick Cottage Hospital for further treatment.
Soon after returning from the Seatoller incident mountain rescuers were called out to assist a woman who had heard a snapping noise in her ankle whilst descending Latrigg on the Spooney Green Lane path.
Those she was walking with called for help and two rescue vehicles were sent out, one to the main Gale Road car park behind Latrigg, and the other to the bottom of Spooney Green Lane.
With this pincer movement she was soon located. The ankle was assessed, pain relief provided, bandaged and splintered.
She was then stretchered down the path where an ambulance took her to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.
