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Search and rescue teams busy Thursday

By JODI HAUSEN Chronicle Staff Writer

Although he was wearing a helmet, a 62-year-old Bozeman man sustained a head injury after crashing his mountain bike around 5 p.m. Thursday on the Bozeman Creek Trail, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office reported Friday.


 Details of the accident, which happened about three miles up the trail, were not available Friday.

However, emergency-dispatch logs indicated that rescuers found the unidentified rider conscious but disoriented as he tried to hike back down the trail.

Another trail user who found the man went down the road to find a telephone and called 911. Within 90 minutes, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, Rae Sourdough Fire Department and American Medical Response ambulance service all responded to the scene.

The emergency workers found the man about two and a half miles from the trailhead. He was taken by ambulance to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

Earlier Thursday, rescuers also helped a 68-year-old Tuscaloosa, Ala., woman whose hip was injured when she was bucked off a horse around noon on the Porcupine Creek Trail, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office.

Members of the department’s Search and Rescue-Big Sky Division transported the woman to the trailhead, where she was transferred to a Big Sky Fire Department ambulance and taken to Bozeman Deaconess Hospital.

Jodi Hausen can be reached at jhausen@dailychronicle.com or 582-2630.

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