DEAD RIVER TOWNSHIP — Rescuers responded to a call for help from an injured hiker off the Appalachian Trail on the back side of Bigelow Mountain.
Douglas Doane, 52, of Atlantic Beach, Fla., suffered a possible broken shoulder on the Appalachian Trail, roughly 1 mile south of Avery Peak in the Bigelow Range in Dead River Township, said Travis Barrett, public relations representative for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Rescue crews in Franklin County were called out Tuesday morning to tend to the hiker.
“At this time, the Maine Warden Service and other local medical professionals are running through the options for getting Doane off the trail,” Barrett said just before 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Doane was approximately 3 miles from any roads.
He will either be able to walk out and meet up with a helicopter rescue, or he will have to be carried out, Barrett said. That has yet to be determined, he said.
Doane has been “sectional hiking” — that is, he’s not attempting the entire Appalachian Trail but instead only hiking different portions of the AT, Barrett said.
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