A 35-year-old woman has suffered a serious head injury after taking a bad fall at a campsite in Golden Ears Provincial Park in Maple Ridge early Saturday morning.
It happened around 4 a.m. in the Alder Flats area.
The woman was camping with a dozen other people when she took a 10-foot fall in the boulder field near the campsite.
The victim lost consciousness and was heavily bleeding.
Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue crews were called out to help with the rescue.
Fifteen members attended and a helicopter was flown in at first light.
With the help of other campers, the woman was extricated from under the rocks.
Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue Manager Rick Laing says the woman was taken to Royal Columbian Hospital by BC Ambulance. There is no word on her current condition.
Laing says this should serve as a precaution for anyone camping in isolated areas.
“Just realize that you are in the backcountry and help is not as close as the regular 9-1-1 call,” he says. “It takes several hours to access people. All we ask is that people play safely.”
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