4/5/2016 – Lost Mountain Biker

SAR Staff, Hasty Team, SVU, and WCSAR responded to the Hibbits Trail Road area to search for a 72yo mountain biker who was off trail and lost. The subject had ridden from his house near the Reindeer Lodge, down Hibbits Trail Road past the house, and kept going – not stopping at the end of the road. A foot team located him approximately 1/2 mile below the end of the road in the Winter’s Creek drainage. The decision was made to bring the subject, who was complaining of shoulder pain from a fall he took while walking with his mountain bike, downhill, rather than back up to the road. Hiking conditions turned out to be extremely difficult, but with the help of a foot team coming up from the bottom, the subject was safely delivered to a staging location north of Davis Creek Park. He was checked by REMSA and his wife transported him back home.