A hiker who fell down an embankment was rescued this afternoon on the Black Diamond Trail in the hills east of Oakhurst Country Club in Clayton.
The person was hoisted up by a CHP helicopter, and transported to a waiting ambulance in the empty lot on the corner of Peacock Creek Dr. and Clayton Rd.
The extent of the person’s injuries have not been released.
Thanks to Mark Dixon for the photos.
What kind of battlecar is that? looks badass
Polaris RZR maybe?
Fire Rescue ATV how cool.
It must be a new toy, haven’t seen it before.
Oh wait… not toy… “tool” ( I don’t want to be corrected by all the up tight
soccer mommies! ).
Scary stuff, glad he/she was found and medical help came.
I once fell down on a sidewalk just a few feet east of The Clayton Club … my friends hoisted me up into the back of a waiting pickup truck and transported me home where they dumped me on my couch.
The extent of my hangover was much worse than my minor physical injuries.
I had forgotten all about it…. but this story is like de javu!
Ha ha ha, Love the humor Dr. Jelly finger’s.
Occasionally, I have a very hard time believing you’re actually a medical professional.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
Yeah….. I get that alot… those guys at the State Medical Board are a buncha stiffs!
But your staff still loves you?
Well…. not anymore, not since HR got involved.
We can do whatever we want after work tho.
I’ve hiked out to black diamond on that trail before about 20 years ago by the clubhouse. I remember following my buddies and almost falling off a 20 foot cliff (embankment). Clutching a lone bush saved my fall. Could’ve been me.
If you can’t hike on an easy trail like that without falling down an embankment you got no business hiking, that rescue cost a small fortune.
Chopper was circling our house for a while at 600′ trying to get it straight how to accomplish the take out. Pissed my neighbors off but didn’t bother a fellow pilot off at all.
lol I was thinking the same thing but everyone deserves and should hike. We need more people back out into nature instead of the rat race our society created. I trail run at mt.diablo waterfall trail and shell ridge all the time and those trails are alot more technical with very steep side drops.
Unless this is one of those idiots that goes up hiking and drinking alcohol breaking bottles on the trail or leaving beer cans and is the reason why they fell on such a easy trail then yeah they have no business hiking and deserve any injury they got in my opinion.
Hope they have good health insurance that helicoptor ride is not cheap im sure!
Glad to hear it was a rescue. When the copter kept circling and FlightRadar24 said it was CHP, I was concerned they were looking for a criminal.
Anon: ditto the the person being billed.
He/she probably wasn’t drunk they were probably TOO busy staring at there stupid phone instead of enjoying nature
Also, you all are so critical, you don’t know the circumstances, age or anything. Maybe you all should learn how to enjoy life and not be so critical of everything and everybody,
Oh my gosh . What is wrong with some of you on here. Someone was out hiking , just getting some exercise during a pandemic, and fell resulting in injuries leading them to need help getting off the mountain. Your “well wishes” have been don’t hike if you can’t walk and send them the bill, and I hope they have insurance. Common decency would warrant a response of ” hope they recover quickly or I am glad they are getting the help they need or get well soon. Instead you are annoyed about hearing the rescue vehicles. I hope if you ever need help people are kinder then you have been.
To the injured party I hope you feel better soon.
1. That embankment is probably a LOT steeper than it looks from a straight-on photograph.
2. You braggarts throwing darts and telling others where they should and should not hike can just……
3. Even experienced hikers can have powder-dry small pebble/ sand footing give way and cause a fall …. especially if there are no shrubs or trees to try to grab when the ground is sliding. I experienced this treacherous type of footing when younger and accustomed to hiking in the Trinity Alps and also up the Shackleford Creek trails in the Siskiyou range. I bless to this day the deeply-rooted young pine sapling I grabbed to stop myself from going over the trail drop-off. Fortunately, my husband realized that I was overdue beck at camp and decided to look at the route I had red-penned on his topo map (thank you, Hogan’s). He met me and became my crutch on the side of the injured knee for the last quarter mile or so.
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True, it twisted the heck out of my left knee, treated me to an excruciating hike back to the tent, ruined the evening for us because of my having to be taken to the hospital ER up in Yreka, and caused me to develop “patella-femoral” syndrome afterward so that I have walked a little “funny” since then. But, hey, I didn’t go over the edge! (Ironically, I could see the military helicopters being used by a logging company to lift enormous redwoods out of a steep, narrow creek canyon up near the ridge of the mountain between Coffee Creek and Callahan….. and I soooooo wished…….)
Bottom line: If any of you wants to go hiking…. DO IT !
Take a lot of water and some salty snacks, have a cellphone (if you’re in an area where one even works)? Try to go with a guided group or use the buddy system, but GO FOR IT !!!
p.s. The day I slipped, my husband was going deer hunting in a separate canyon; so instead of agreeing to go along with him and read or do crewel-work in his truck….. I pulled a bull-headed hissy-fit and ‘llowed as how” I would “go by myself then” because it would be my only chance to explore the twin upper lakes on the down-cliff side of the Wooly Mountain ridge. [For those who know the area, we were camping out from Callahan…. THAT side…. rather than having gone up Coffee Creek Road.]
I hiked Lime Ridge & surrounding hills as a child back in the 60’s with a few other friends on many occasions. We hiked and caught snakes. Nobody ever fell or got hurt, EZ Peazy…..The closest thing to an injury I almost had was while trying to wrangle a snake out from under a wild artichoke plant I suddenly realized I was holding the lower 50% of a rattlesnake which I instantly let go of and fell backwards into a cow pond.
As my friends rushed in to catch the fat serpent I shouted “rattler!” thus freezing them in place & undoubtedly saving their lives…..
True story!
The 3-minute $15,000 helicopter ride. I hope he has insurance.
CHP helicopter is a state funded resource. There are no bills for it services!