Bill Williams is reporting for Columbia-Greene Media state forest rangers helped with two separate rescues of injured hikers in Greene County last week, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation. The DEC received a call the afternoon of August 18, that a 72-year-old woman from East Hills, Nassau County, had suffered an unstable lower leg injury on the Escarpment Trail, south of Sunset Rock in the Kaaterskill Wild Forest. Forest rangers hiked in and found the woman less than a mile from the trailhead. They splinted her ankle, got her into a Stokes basket and carried her out to the trailhead using rope rescue techniques. She was brought to North/South Lake Campground and then taken by ambulance to Kingston Memorial Hospital for further medical treatment. Four days later the DEC was notified a 14-year-old hiker from Queens injured her leg on the Yellow Trail to Kaaterskill Falls. The hiker was given first aid and lifted from the bottom of the falls using technical rope systems. She was then taken by ambulance to Columbia Memorial Health for further medical treatment, a DEC spokesperson said. Read the full story at HudsonValley360 [dot] com.