Rescue crews carried an injured hiker more than a mile-and-a-half down the Old Bridle Path in New Hampshire yesterday.
According to New Hampshire Fish and Game officials, conservation officers received a report of an injured hiker on the Old Bridle Path on Mount Lafayette at 12:55 p.m. on Thursday, October 15.
Conservation officers responded to the trailhead along with 22 members of the Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team.
Rescuers hiked roughly 1.6 miles to the injured 26-year-old female hiker from Stamford, Connecticut. She had reportedly been hiking down the trail when she fell and sustained a serious injury.
Rescuers carried the hiker to the trailhead, arriving at 4:10 p.m. She was then taken to Littleton Regional Hospital by Lin-Wood Ambulance Service.
