RUMFORD – Two men taken to Rumford Hospital after their snowmobiles collided Saturday afternoon on a Rumford trail suffered only bumps and scratches, Maine Warden Brock Clukey said by phone Tuesday morning.

“I was shocked,” Clukey said. “I figured there had to have been a broken bone or two somewhere. One guy lost consciousness due to the impact of getting hit, so, I can’t believe he didn’t have any injuries. Both of them were very lucky to walk away from that.”

At about 2:45 p.m., Lyman Chisholm, 43, of Pembroke, Mass., had nearly stopped his 2006 Yamaha on ITS 82 after others in his group of five or more riders had just gotten some sleds unstuck, Clukey said.

That’s when a 1998 Ski-Doo Formula 2 operated by William Lodwyk, 32, of Dover, N.H., crested a hill on the wrong side of the trail and slammed into Chisholm’s sled about an eighth of a mile into the woods from Beliveau Road between Black Mountain ski area and Route 120.

A few days before the accident, Lodwyk put a new engine in the sled and was having trouble with it right before the collision.

“The trails hadn’t been groomed, so there was a lot of powder, and he told me his sled slid sideways into the opposite lane, and struck the other guy, who couldn’t believe it, because he had just pulled up and was waiting for his buddies. There was no alcohol involved,” Clukey said.

Lodwyk was thrown from his sled, which hit the Yamaha, flipped up and landed upside down on Chisholm, who lost consciousness for about 10 minutes, Clukey said.

Friends traveling with Chisholm immediately flipped the sled off him.

Rumford firefighters and Med-Care Ambulance responded to the call for help. Using his own snowmobile, Roger Simard of Rumford, on whose property the accident occurred, drove a Med-Care medic and emergency medical technician and Rumford Fire Department’s rescue sled to the scene.

Chisholm was brought out of the woods strapped to a backboard in the rescue toboggan and loaded into an ambulance first. Then, Lodwyk, who was believed to have suffered a leg injury, was brought out on the toboggan and placed in a second ambulance.

Clukey said one group had ridden down from Rangeley, and the other four snowmobilers came down from Byron.

He estimated damage to Chisholm’s sled at more than $1,000; and between $500 and $800 to Lodwyk’s Ski-Doo. He also summoned Lodwyk on a charged of operating an unregistered snowmobile. Lodwyk will be arraigned on March 6 in Rumford District Court.