15 volunteers from the Alberni Valley Rescue Squad along with 3 specialists from Campbell River spent their holiday Monday rescuing a hiker from the Della Falls Trail.
Search manager Dave Paulson said a call came in around 9:30 yesterday morning, and the group were on scene by 11:30 to assist the man, who had aggravated an old injury at the cable car section of the trail, and the injury rendered him incapable of hiking out.
He was airlifted by helicopter to a waiting ambulance at the Ark Resort, and was then taken to West Coast General Hospital.