Woman injured in hiking accident at Arches National Park
Dec 11, 2023, 8:48 PM
A 26-year-old woman suffered a lower leg injury in a hiking accident Sunday at Arches National Park. (Grand County EMS, Facebook)
(Grand County EMS, Facebook)
MOAB — A 26-year-old woman suffered a lower leg injury in a hiking accident Sunday at Arches National Park.
Grand County emergency personnel were dispatched to the Devil’s Garden Primitive Trail just after 1 p.m.
According to a Facebook posting, the victim was downclimbing off of a sandstone fin when a rock gave way.
Grand County paramedics worked along with the National Park Service Search and Rescue to get to the victim, treat her injuries and transport her more than a mile through the backcountry to where an ambulance was waiting.
The rescue was made more difficult by the weather. According to the posting, the temperature was 40 degrees with a mixture of ice and snow in certain areas of the trail.
The rescue was complete around 5 p.m.
