Rangers in North Elba, New York, in the Adirondack High Peaks Wilderness, received a call at 4:20 p.m. on Friday, November 21, from a hiker advising that his companion, a 26-year-old female from Jericho, Vermont, needed assistance on Algonquin Mountain. She had fallen into a river, was wet and it was turning colder.
Two forest rangers on snowmobiles proceeded up the old Algonquin Trail while a third forest ranger set out on foot from the ADK Loj to Algonquin Junction. The woman was located half-way up the Algonquin Trail at 6:30 p.m.
Rangers provided her with water and dry gloves and transported her back to ADK Loj by snowmobile, arriving at the Loj at 7:30 p.m. Her hiking companions met her with dry clothes. She declined medical attention on-site but was encouraged to seek a medical evaluation on her own. Her hiking party advised they would bring her to Adirondack Medical Center for treatment.