Image: Derrick Kramer, used with permission / Chilliwack resident Derrick Kramer shared this image of a Chilliwack Search and Rescue helicopter landing in the Chilliwack River Valley Sunday afternoon. Chilliwack SAR was activated after an individual suffered some kind of injury near Goat Ridge, west of Lindeman Lake.

By Mike Vanden Bosch

Chilliwack Search and Rescue

Chilliwack Search and Rescue activated Sunday for rescue effort near Lindeman Lake

Sep 10, 2023 | 6:51 PM

CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Search and Rescue volunteers were dispatched Sunday afternoon (Sept. 10) for a rescue effort west of Lindeman Lake.

According to Chilliwack River Valley resident and witness Derrick Kramer, Chilliwack SAR and BC Ambulance Service were dispatched after an individual suffered an apparent injury near Goat Ridge, an area west of Lindeman Lake in the Chilliwack River Valley.

Goat Ridge trail, also known as the Goat Mountain hike by some, is described as a tough, challenging jaunt that takes hikers up steep sections of forest before elevating to a vista point at Porcupine Rock overlooking Lindeman Lake.

According to Kramer, rescue personnel used a long line extraction to bring the injured individual to an area near Chilliwack Lake Provincial Park where BC Ambulance Service was waiting to transport the patient to hospital.

After speaking with rescue volunteers, Kramer believes the person suffered some kind of leg injury, possibly a fractured leg. This has not been confirmed by authorities.

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The incident happened sometime after 3 p.m. A helicopter extracted the patient sometime after 4 p.m.

Image: Derrick Kramer

Images and video shared by Kramer show a helicopter taking off and landing deep in the Chilliwack River Valley, along with an ambulance and Chilliwack SAR vehicle parked on the right side of the road.

Image: Derrick Kramer / BC Ambulance Service was dispatched to the Chilliwack River Valley Sunday afternoon (Sept 10) after a patient suffered some kind of injury that required the services of Chilliwack Search and Rescue.

The Lindeman Lake trailhead is approximately 39.6 kilometres east of the Vedder Bridge.