Rescue: # 32Mount Olympus Trail

Callout Time: 4 PM 09/02/19

Duration: 2 hours 15 minutes

SLCOSAR was called out for male hiker who had summited Mount Olympus and, on the way, down became dehydrated and sick about 1.7 miles up the trail. The patient found a place to rest under a tree in the shade and another hiker on the trail stopped and gave him water and waited with him.

Search and Rescue teams where almost to the bottom of the trail with another patient when this call came in. A team of four members grabbed all the remaining water from the rest of the team, packed it up and headed back up the mountain while the rest of the members finished taking the first patient to the bottom. The SAR team found the patient and the by-stander and did a quick assessment, cooled the patient down with water, hydrated and rested and when hiked the patient down slowly. The patient and the SAR members got off the mountain shortly after 6PM. ... See more

Rescue: # 31 Mount Olympus Trail

Callout Time: 10:42 AM 09/02/19

Duration: 5 hours 47 minutes

SLCOSAR was called out for a female hiker with an ankle injury about 3 miles up the Mount Olympus trail above the "blister hill" section of the trail and below the saddle.
The patient and friends had started out early this morning and hiked to the summit of Mount Olympus. On the way down the female injured her ankle. With the help of her friends, she tried to get down the mountain before deciding to call for help. Several SAR teams headed up the mountain and were able to use a litter and wheel with a lot of manpower to get the patient down the mountain. Just as the teams got to the last few hundred feet to the trailhead a second call came in for a sick hiker nearly 2 miles back up the trail. A team of four turned around and headed back up the mountain.

The first patient was off the mountain around 4PM.

UPDATE: The patient updated us and said the ankle was broken in three places. ... See more

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