The Clapham-based Cave Rescue Organisation were called out after a dog was reported to be exhausted on a walk.
The 11-year-old Labradoodle dog was with his owners walking between Clapham and Horton in Ribblesdale.
A team vehicle, with four members on board, was sent to help after the call out.
A spokesman for the team said that with some coaxing, the dog, called Sydney, tottered on to within a short distance of a decent vehicle track.
He was then carried to the team vehicle and transported to Clapham for a drink and feed.
That left two people to set off back to Clapham, on foot, so a second vehicle was sent to retrieve them.
The spokesman said this then proved to be good news for a different party of three who had taken a wrong turn off the Three Peaks Walk route, arriving in Clapham while aiming for Horton in Ribblesdale.
"As a CRO vehicle was heading that way, in any case, they were taken to ‘Sulber Cross-roads’, to walk the last two miles, or so, down to Horton (but we promised not to tell on them)."
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