BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 6, 2021
A Portland man was rescued Tuesday after he fell and became trapped between two large rocks on Katahdin. The 35-year-old man was hiking with a partner on Dudley Trail in the Great Basin about 1:45 p.m. when he slipped and fell between two large rocks, according to Eben Sypitkowski, the director of Baxter State Park. He dislocated his shoulder and remained trapped until other hikers freed him, Sypitkowski said Wednesday. The man’s partner then hiked four miles to Roaring Brook Campground, where he alerted a park ranger to the situation on the trail about 4 p.m. A Maine National Guard Black Hawk helicopter was in the area after airlifting a 36-year-old woman from Auburn, Georgia, who was injured on the Abol Trail. After dropping her and two park rangers at the Caribou Pit, where an ambulance awaited them, the Black Hawk crew flew back to the mountain, where they loaded the man.