GRAFTON TOWNSHIP – Rescuers walked an injured woman out of the woods at about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday, seven hours after the search for her began on Baldpate Mountain.

The 59-year-old woman from Gorham, N.H., slipped and struck her knee on a rock while hiking, said Maine Warden Brock Clukey of Andover.

Rescue crews were called to the mountain at about 4:15 p.m. in search of the woman who was roughly 4 miles into the woods on the Appalachian Trail.

Her name was not available late Tuesday night.

According to a Med-Care official, a man who had been hiking with the injured woman left the group and hiked to a place where he got cell-phone reception to call state police at the barracks in Gray.

Andover Rescue and Med-Care Ambulance crews were the first to respond, staging on a discontinued side trail on East B Hill Road off Route 5 in Andover.

Andover Rescue members Victor Peterson and George Lauzier hiked up first, carrying medical equipment and a litter, according to Andover Rescue and fire Chief Ken Dixon.

About 5:30 p.m., Andover Rescue’s four-wheel all-terrain vehicle arrived and member Jim Adler took Med-Care paramedic Toby Martin in, along with medical gear and blankets and treatment equipment for hypothermia, due to dropping temperatures.

They could only drive in a mile, officials said. Due to steep terrain, they had to hike the rest of the way to reach the victim, somewhere on East Peak.

Baldpate Mountain has an elevation of 3,820 feet.

By 6 p.m., rescue crews reached the injured woman and devised a plan to walk her off the mountain.