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Penticton search crews rescue mountain biker and hiker on weekend

Penticton search crews rescue mountain biker and hiker on weekend | iNFOnews.ca
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PENTICTON – Penticton Search and Rescue volunteers were kept hopping this weekend with call outs to rescue an injured hiker, and the rescue of an injured mountain biker. 

Search and Rescue spokesperson Randy Brown says just after 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 25, they were called to aid an injured mountain biker in the Three Blind Mice trail system near Penticton.

The injured woman was found quickly, in part due to the use of the Trailforks mountain bike mobile app by the woman’s companions, Brown says in a media release. The Trailforks app alerts emergency personnel and provides searchers with and exact location of the injured party.

Due to the woman’s injuries and location in rough terrain, it a helicopter was called in to rescue the woman with a long line. She was transported to a waiting ambulance.

Penticton Search and Rescue also responded to a call for assistance on Sunday, May 26 when a 43-year-old man hiking in the Skaha Bluffs Provincial Park area was injured around 6:12 p.m. The helicopter team was employed to extricate the man, who was then transferred to a waiting ambulance.

Brown says a rescue team was also deployed on Sunday afternoon to help out Oliver/Osoyoos rescue crews but the call was cancelled on their way to the incident. 

He recommends anyone going into the woods or adventuring on the region’s many trails to have the Trailforks app handy, saying it provides an exact location for searchers, assisting them in their rescue efforts.

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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