Overview
- Responders were dispatched around 1:15 p.m. on Feb. 15 to assist two injured hikers on Mount Ellinor.
- A King County Sheriff’s Guardian One helicopter attempted an initial rescue but was unable to proceed due to weather.
- The Mason County Special Operations Team led a technical ground effort that located and reached the patients.
- By about 9 p.m., a U.S. Coast Guard crew hoisted both hikers and transported them to a hospital in Olympia.
- The woman reported internal bleeding and other injuries, the 16-year-old hurt his knee, and agencies later thanked partners without providing further condition updates.