Coquitlam Search and Rescue plucked a woman off a hiking trail near Widgeon Falls Saturday afternoon after a woman injured herself on a hiking trail.
The call came in at around 2:45 p.m. from a group that had paddled across the Pitt River in a canoe from Maple Ridge, said Tom Zajac, president of Coquitlam Search and Rescue.
SAR members have access to service roads that lead to Widgeon Creek, but the falls further up the hiking trails were another matter.
So the team decided to call in a Talon helicopter to longline the injured woman off the trail.
The woman’s injuries are not life-threatening.
Coquitlam SAR has just completed a HECS helicopter rescue of an injured hiker near Widgeon Falls. Our second long-line rescue in two days. pic.twitter.com/PGjdokfOCB
— Coquitlam SAR (@CoquitlamSAR) August 3, 2019
After relatively quiet July, this is the second rescue the Coquitlam team has performed in three days.
On Thursday afternoon, a search and rescue team opted to pull another injured hiker off Eagle Mountain with a longline.
