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The hunter's daughter and a friend hiking with him bandaged his leg
and scrambled to a higher elevation to find phone service to call
for help on Tuesday, said Ben Peeler, chief of North Country
Emergency Medical Service.
The man was later hoisted out of the heavily forested terrain marked
by cliffs and canyons in Skamania County, about 200 miles south of
Seattle, in a basket suspended from a helicopter, and then taken for
treatment, Peeler said.
The severity of the hunter's injury and his identity was not
immediately available. He was treated at an area hospital. His
daughter stayed with rescuers overnight and hiked out on Wednesday,
Peeler said.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson in Seattle; Editing by Cynthia
Johnston and Sandra Maler)
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