We were on our way down the Mount Lowe Motorway after working on the Angeles Crest 100 Mile Endurance Run today. We happened upon an injured Mountain Biker. The Altadena Mountain Rescue Team was in the area supporting the race and responded quickly.
The Injured Mountain Biker, Ginny Ferguson, was celebrating her 53rd Birthday, taking a Mountain Bike ride training for a bicycle race.
We took some photos of AMRT treating her and then some of Sheriff’s Air Rescure 5 when it arrived to airlift her out. I believe she was taken to Huntington Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
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As we write this, there’s a call on the scanner about a stranded hiker on the Mt. Wilson Toll Road tonight, and Rescue is responding. We’ll keep an eye on it.
(BTW, we celebrated our birthday Sunday, too, but it didn’t involve bike crashes or helicopters — more like Green Street Restaurant and a martini …)
UPDATE 9/15 7:30 AM: That’s right, there was a race! PSN has the results.
UPDATE 9/16: Ginny Ferguson (the injured cyclist) has a comment!
Ginny Ferguson said…
Hi …
I just found this story about me…
My bike slipped on the sand as I was coming around the bend. I must have just lost focus at the wrong time, because I wasn’t going fast.
I still can’t believe I’m laid up like this…. flat on my back in the hospital, unable to move because of a fracture in my hip. They’re going to put a pin in it on Tuesday morning. I was told that it was a good idea to be air lifted out. Otherwise, I might have displaced the injury, making it more serious.
It’s kind of fun to notice that my incident was posted on this blog. To correct a minor detail… I wasn’t training for a mountain bike race. I was training for a marathon and using this trip as cross training. No marathon now. It’ll be 6 months before I can consider that again.
Thanks for your time.
Monday, September 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM