The Unit was contacted by the Pierce County Department of Emergency Management at 4:00 pm on the 3^rd of September. The Yakima County Sheriff had requested Mountain Rescue Volunteers to help rescue a 37 year old climber from the 8100 foot level of Mt. Adams. The subject had tried to glissade from higher on the mountain to a spot called Lunch Counter, a popular high campsite used when trying for the summit. Unfortunately he had forgotten to remove his crampons. As he was sliding down the mountain one of his crampons caught in the snow and broke his leg. The following report of the mission was submitted by Fran Martoglio.

We were paged late Sunday afternoon for an injured climber just below the lunch counter on Mt. Adams. The following members responded: Jeff Sharp, Chris Berryman, Victor Caro, Jim Andrues, Ben Constance, Stan Kartes and myself. We got to the trailhead around 11:30 pm. We were going to be a part of a mixed team (Central Mountain Rescue and Seattle Mountain Rescue) and 1 Forest Service Ranger that would leave at 4 am to climb up to the patient. We were informed that a doctor had checked on the patient; he was with his friends and comfortable. The original field diagnosis was torn knee ligaments.

We packed our individual and team gear that night. We took the rigging kit, 2 x 400' ropes and the wheeled litter. The teams left on time and started up on a nice clear night. We reached the patient within a couple hours. He was doing great. He had unfortunately tried glissading with crampons on and had caught his foot. One of the Seattle team members was an MD, and felt that he had probably broken his fibula also. A call was made to MAST to ask for a fly-out. Although it was not a life-threatening injury, the carryout would have been extremely hard on the patient.

We set up a low angle lower of 400 feet on snow to the LZ. MAST then arrived and flew the patient to Yakima. The team hiked out and we were at the parking lot by 11:30 am.

Thanks to the other MRA teams for a great job on this mission. And additional thanks to CMR for retrieving our litter and gear.