Caring for the injured skiers Date: 08/12/2008 PMR and Mount Hood Ski Patrol rescuers administer first aid to a cold and injured cross country skier while helping to fit the other skier with a pair of snow shoes. After spending a cold night in the elements, the skiers were too fatigued to ski out of the Wilderness.

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Escort out of the Wilderness Date: 08/12/2008 PMR's Tom Stringfield (right) escorts one of the skiers out of the Wilderness. She was too fatigued to ski out, so snowshoes were used instead.

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First Patient at the Sno-Cat Date: 08/12/2008 The first of the two cross country skiers reaches a small Sno-Cat for the final one mile journey to the trailhead and waiting medical help.

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Second Patient at the Sno-Cat Date: 08/12/2008 The second skier reaches the waiting Sno-Cat for the final one mile journey to the trailhead and a waiting ambulance.

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Rescuers skiing back to base Date: 08/12/2008 PMR rescuers Tom Stringfield (left), Marty Johnson (right, front) and Spencer Bohaboy (right, back) escort the Sno-Cat back to the trailhead.

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Patients reach the ambulance Date: 08/12/2008 The two fatigued and cold skiers leave the Sno-Cat and enter the waiting AMR ambulance for transport to a local hospital. They would be fine.

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