LAKE PLACID – Forest rangers were once again busy Sunday rescuing an injured hiker in the High Peaks Wilderness Area.

The Department of Environmental Conservation dispatch center in Ray Brook received a call from staff at the Adirondak Loj about a distressed hiker. The 55-year-old New Hampshire man could not move.

Adirondack Mountain Club staff and members of the man’s hiking party carried him in a litter to the DEC interior outpost at Johns Brook, where there is a landing area for helicopters. Rangers coordinated with New York State Police Aviation to airlift the man out of the backcountry.

The helicopter took the man to Marcy Field in Keene Valley, where he was transferred to the Keene Valley Rescue Squad for transport to Elizabethtown Community Hospital.

The hiker was not identified.