LAKE PLACID — A forest ranger helped a hobbled hiker reunite with his party this past weekend, the state Department of Environmental Conservation reported.

On Saturday at 6:41 p.m., DEC’s Ray Brook dispatch received a call from a 27-year-old man from Rochester suffering from a sore knee while hiking to Mount Marcy in the High Peaks Wilderness, in the town of North Elba. The hiker did not have a head lamp or flashlight, and reported that his four friends hiked out ahead of him.

Just before 10 p.m. at Marcy Dam, Forest Ranger Scott Sabo Jr. made contact with the hiker and two friends who had turned back to help him. Sabo and the hikers arrived back at the Adirondak Loj parking lot at 11:16 p.m. and reunited the hikers with their group.