{"id":37944,"date":"2022-10-10T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/injured-cortez-woman-airlifted-from-poverty-gulch-area\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:41:07","slug":"injured-cortez-woman-airlifted-from-poverty-gulch-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/injured-cortez-woman-airlifted-from-poverty-gulch-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Cortez woman airlifted from Poverty Gulch area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a18b72aa-0bf0-5bdb-b0e6-8f6c0fbbee81&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"720\" height=\"415\" alt=\"San Miguel Search and Rescue responded to a hiker who fell and injured her leg Saturday in Poverty Gulch, near the Hope Lake Trail. (Courtesy San Miguel Search and Rescue)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">San Miguel Search and Rescue responded to a hiker who fell and injured her leg Saturday in Poverty Gulch, near the Hope Lake Trail. (Courtesy San Miguel Search and Rescue)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>San Miguel County Search and Rescue assisted two injured hikers Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers first responded to the Poverty Gulch area for a 28-year-old Cortez woman who injured her leg in a fall, according to a post on the San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was injured after taking a wrong turn while hiking with a companion on the Hope Lake Trail east of Lizard Head Pass. She could not bear weight and required extrication.<\/p>\n\n<p>The San Miguel Sheriff\u2019s Office used its helicopter to lower search and rescue personnel to the area. The woman was carried in a litter to the helicopter. She and her companion were brought safely back to their vehicle and were seeking medical care on their own.<\/p>\n<p>During the mission, rescuers launched a second rescue for a 49-year-old woman who injured her leg in the Bridal Veil Falls area in Telluride.<\/p>\n<p>After the Sheriff\u2019s Office helicopter finished the first mission, its crew helped to locate the woman, who was assisted by deputies and the Telluride Fire Protection District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>injured near Hope Lake Trail; another at Bridal Veil Falls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,29,1561],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-37944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-san-miguel-county"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83847,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37944\/revisions\/83847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37944"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=37944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}