Rescuers carried an injured hiker down nearly a mile of “extremely difficult terrain” near Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire yesterday.
According to New Hampshire Fish and Game officials, conservation officers received a notification of an injured hiker on the White Dot Trail at Monadnock State Park at 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, September 19.
The injured hiker’s companion had contacted the park’s rangers at 12:27 p.m. to report the 28-year-old hiker had injured her lower leg while hiking up the mountain and needed assistance.
Park rangers reached the hiker, who was above the “Upper Junction,” at 1:03 p.m. and began providing medical aid. Due to the distance from the bottom, rangers attempted to help the hiker down under her own power to avoid a lengthy and difficult carry-out.
Unfortunately, due to her injury, this was not possible.
Once rangers determined a carryout was inevitable, conservation officers responded and requested further assistance from the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team, and from members of the Jaffrey Fire Department, Peterborough Fire Department, Troy Fire Department, and Marlborough Fire Department.
Rangers packaged the hiker into a litter. Rescuers then carried her down the White Dot Trail to the Paradise Valley Trail, and then to the Purgatory Trail and the Side Foot Trail. They arrived at the Old Toll Road at approximately 8 p.m.
Rescuers said the route was just under one mile and they described it as being a carry over “extremely difficult terrain.”
The hiker was placed in a Jaffrey-Rindge Memorial Ambulance and taken to Cheshire Medical Center in Keene for treatment of her injury.
