Rescue crews performed a technical rope rescue of a hiker who fell down a 50-foot gully in New York last week.
The incident was one of several wilderness rescues in New York during the week.
According to officials with the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, forest rangers received a report of a 911 call for a hiker who fell down a gully in Naples, New York at 6:34 p.m. on Friday, April 10.
The hiker had reportedly fallen down a 50-foot gully in High Tor Wildlife Management Area.
A forest ranger worked with Ontario and Yates County Rope Rescue Teams to raise the 30-year-old from Rochester out of the gully.
The hiker was checked out by roadside emergency medical technicians. Resources were clear at 9:39 p.m.
In another incident, forest rangers responded to a call to help three hikers who were off trail on Haystack Mountain in North Elba, New York at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, April 13.
The hikers said they were lost and unprepared for the weather.
Rangers called and, using mapping software, led them back onto the trail. Rangers then met the hikers to provide food and water.
In another incident, rangers received a report of a lost hiker off trail behind the Burketown neighborhood at Raquette Lake at 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 12.
Three rangers responded to the scene, and at 9:15 p.m. one of the rangers made voice contact with the 55-year-old and located them deep in a swamp, getting cold in wet jeans.
The ranger walked the subject out of the woods. Resources were clear at 10 p.m.
