A man fractured his leg while sliding on Hollyburn Mountain Trail early Monday afternoon — the second such call the search and rescue team handled in three days.
Safety conditions are taking a slide on one particularly slippery section of trail in West Vancouver.
North Shore Rescue responded to a call of a man fracturing his leg while sliding on Hollyburn Mountain Trail early Monday afternoon — the second such call the search and rescue team handled in three days.
“It sounds like exactly the same incident (that) happened on Saturday,” said Don Jardine, North Shore Rescue search manager. It’s “quite surprising because the odds of that are relatively low.”
On Saturday, a woman did a ‘bum slide’ down the trail and broke her left ankle after catching it on something while her body continued to slide.
The team is unsure whether the hiker injured on Monday had intentionally done a slide or had fallen. But during the ensuing slide, the 70-year-old’s crampons dug into the ground, causing his leg to get stuck in place while his body carried on.
“He seemed well prepared, his pack was quite heavy, which may have helped contribute to some of his injuries unfortunately,” Jardine said.
“He was lucky that there were people there to assist him, it is a pretty popular hiking trail,” Jardine said.
Abby Luciano is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter with the North Shore News. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.
his leg while sliding on Hollyburn Mountain Trail early Monday afternoon — the second such call the search and rescue team handled in three days.