Mono County Search & Rescue team members and medics transport a woman who fell down a steep slope above Mono City on Monday afternoon.
A 78-year-old woman was rescued Monday afternoon from a steep, off-trail slope where she’d broken her leg and arm in a fall near Red Lake in the Sierra Nevada above Mono City.
According to a post from the Mono County Search & Rescue Team, they were called 1:40 p.m. to help Bridgeport Volunteer Fire Department and medics with getting her off the mountain.
“Team 1 assisted with packaging the subject in the steep and precarious location and loaded her into the full-body vacuum splint and subsequent wheeled litter,” rescuers said.
The team also built an anchor system to be able to lower her down the slope.
“As the litter team neared the end of their 200-foot line on the first lower, other Mono SAR field teams arrived on scene with additional manpower and rigging equipment, and a second lowering system-belay anchor was constructed with a 300-foot rope which was enough to get the litter team down to safe ground.”
She was transferred to the ambulance which drover her to Conway Summit where CareFlight was waiting to helicopter her to Renown.
• On Thursday night, East Fork firefighters treated a mountain biker who crashed about three miles from the Clear Creek trailhead.
The call came in at 7:50 p.m. and East Fork was able to make contact with her by 8:30 p.m. and transport her for treatment.
