A woman was rescued on New Year’s Eve after she fell on a mountain in Acadia National Park.
The 68-year-old was hiking with her husband on Gorham Mountain about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday when she slipped from a standing position and hurt her lower leg, according to John Kelly, a management assistant in the Acadia superintendent’s office.
She was unable to walk out on her own because of the injury, Kelly said Friday.
Five park service employees and 11 volunteers from MDI Search and Rescue carried the woman about an eighth of a mile to the Gorham Mountain parking lot on the Park Loop Road, where they arrived about 7:30 p.m.
“It was not a technical rescue, but the trail was wet and slippery,” Kelly wrote in an email to the Bangor Daily News.
Her husband drove her from the scene. Her condition was not available.
No additional information was immediately available.
