LA PINE, OR -- Deschutes County Search and Rescue has had a busy weekend, starting Friday afternoon with a motorcycle crash in the East Fort Rock OHV trail system. A 63-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries but was unable to get out under her own power.

Eight SAR volunteers responded on ATVs. The patient's injuries were evaluated by medical team members and she was loaded into a wheeled litter and onto a patient transport trailer towed by an ATV . She was transported out of the trail system to China Hat Road, where Bend Fire and Rescue were staged with an ambulance (pictured, above). The patient was taken to St. Charles Bend. 

Then Saturday, a 66-year-old woman fell while hiking the Paulina Lakeshore Trail. Seven SAR volunteers responded in two teams, one by trail and the other with DCSO Marine Patrol, because part of the trail is accessible by boat.  The patient was transported by wheeled litter to a boat accessible location on Paulina Lake and loaded onto the Marine Patrol boat. She was taken to the Paulina Lake Lodge boat dock, where they met with La Pine Paramedics. She was then taken by ambulance to St. Charles Bend.