Bum sliding – it's all fun and games until a hiker gets hurt. That's the message from one Canadian mountain rescue team after crews found themselves attending to two virtually identical callouts in two days for hikers who were seriously injured trying to slide downhill.
Yesterday, North Shore Rescue in North Vancouver, BC, took to social media to report that they had responded to a hiker on Hollyburn Mountain at Cypress ski area suffering a suspected leg fracture. The man was wearing traction devices but had suffered a fall.
