Hood River woman injured while hiking Middle Falls Trail

Rescuers located a hiker from Hood River, Ore., on Tuesday after she was injured when she fell off Middle Falls Trail east of Mount St. Helens in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

The Skamania County Sheriff’s Office said in a Wednesday release that it got a call at 2:38 p.m. about an injured hiker near the overlook off the trail at Forest Road 90, which is 37 miles east of the town of Cougar.

“The initial report was the hiker fell off the trail and was unresponsive,” the release says.

A search and rescue deputy with North Country EMS and Volcano Rescue Team members responded to the area and found Glenna A. Dunn, 74, who was taken to the Pine Creek ranger station with critical injuries, deputies said.

Dunn was then airlifted to PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver for treatment.

Dunn was reportedly with a group of hikers that split off from a larger group. They went along trail No. 31 — currently posted as closed. Dunn was helping another hiker who’d fallen when she slipped off the trail.

Dunn slid about 85 feet and came to rest against some large rocks, deputies said.

The sheriff’s office said her condition was unavailable.