A hiker who claimed to be injured and had no lights had to be rescued on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail last night.
According to New Hampshire Fish and Game officials, conservation officers received a 911 call for an injured hiker at 9:40 p.m. on Wednesday, July 8.
The hiker, a 67-year-old woman from Ohio, reported having a knee injury. Her and her husband were on the Tuckerman Ravine Trail a little over a mile from the AMC Pinkham Notch Visitor Center, and she said she was unable to continue hiking.
During the call, conservation officers learned that the hiker had slipped and fallen several hours prior, but had been able to continue hiking. However, once it got dark and they had no lights, they could no longer continue.
Conservation officers reportedly questioned her about her ability to physically continue under her own power, but the hiker insisted that she could not continue hiking down.
Due to the injury, conservation officers and volunteers from the Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue Team (AVSAR) responded to the scene.
The first responding AVSAR volunteer hiked up the trail and found that the hiker and her husband were continuuing to move after they had been provided with a headlamp from another hiker that had come upon them.
When conservation officers arrived, they used ATVs to drive up the Sherburne Ski Trail and were able to get close enough to the hiker’s location where she was assisted to the ATVs and driven down to the Pinkham Notch Visitor Center parking lot, arriving at 1:15 a.m.
The hiker refused medical treatment.
