Shuswap search and rescue volunteers helped a woman injured in a snowmobile incident on the Owlhead trail system near Sicamous on Saturday, Dec. 19.

According to Shuswap Volunteer Search and Rescue search manager John Schut, a call came in about 5:30 p.m. Schut said they were told a 27-year-old woman had suffered a head injury and was stuck at the bottom of a steep embankment, about 11 km up the trail.

The search and rescue (SAR) group responded with 18 of its members including a first aid team and a side-by-side equipped to transport a stretcher.

The injured woman, who Schut said is a Fort McMurray, Alta. resident was sledding with a group and her friends tended to her until volunteers arrived.

Schut said crews had to perform a rope rescue down a steep embankment to access the site of the crash and to bring the injured woman back up to the trail, so she could be taken to a waiting ambulance. The woman was then transported to hospital in Salmon Arm.

Schut was unsure about the extent of the woman91ÂãÁÄÊÓƵ™s injuries noting that she had been knocked unconscious, but was alert by the time SAR volunteers arrived.

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