HOODSPORT — Three injured hikers were rescued from Mount Ellinor in the Olympic National Forest — two of them by helicopter in the middle of the night.
A female hiker with an injured ankle was rescued by a ground crew Saturday afternoon.
Fran Sharp of Tacoma Mountain Rescue says two others, a man and a woman, were injured later in the afternoon when they apparently were hit by a block of ice as they were descending the mountain, about 15 miles west of Hoodsport in Mason County.
After rescuers reached them, a helicopter was called in from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.
Using night-vision equipment, the helicopter crew located the climbers about 2:30 a.m. Sunday and lifted them off the mountain.
They were flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
The hikers’ names, hometowns and conditions were not immediately available.
Mount Ellinor is 5,944 feet tall, and still has snow-covered areas.
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