Members of the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue team helped a hiker from the Tubal Cain Mine Trail south of Sequim on Aug. 1.

Peninsula Communications received a 9-1-1 call of an injured hiker who had fallen 100 feet, broken his back and sustained head injuries on the Tubal Cain Mine Trail, about 25 miles from the end of Palo Alto Road in the Buckhorn Wilderness.

Four Search and Rescue team members were dispatched to the trailhead, hiked about two miles and found the hiker at about 11 p.m. The hiker had sustained minor head, shoulder and back injuries, but was mobile and able to walk out, sheriff’s office officials said.

The hiker was evaluated and given first aid on scene, the sheriff’s office said, by Search and Rescue team members, including U.S. Border Patrol Agent Migel Nogales, a trained EMT.

Fire District 3 and Olympic Ambulance arrived at the trailhead at about 11:45 p.m. and transported the hiker to Olympic Medical Center for evaluation and treatment.

A Boy Scout leader from Kingston Troop No. 55 made the initial call, giving Peninsula Communications the GPS coordinates of the injured hiker.

Clallam County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue is a volunteer division of the Sheriff’s Office that responds to emergency urban or wilderness search and rescue calls 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Team members train in many areas of rescue work including search, radio communication, navigation, tracking, emergency medicine, technical rescue and water rescue.

Anyone interested in becoming a Search and Rescue team member should contact the Sheriff’s Office in person or visit the Sheriff’s Office website (www.clallam.net/sheriff) and fill out the volunteer application.