A Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) hiker in Washington seriously hurt her leg and had to call for help. When search-and-rescue (SAR) personnel arrived and lifted the injured hiker into a helicopter, she snapped a selfie with one of her rescuers. The Kittitas County Sheriff posted the photo on Facebook, calling the woman, Cheryl Scott, a “remarkably resilient person.”

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“THE GREATEST RESCUE SELFIE EVER?” wrote Kittitas County Sheriff in its post sharing the selfie and other photos from the rescue. “At about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 7, two women hiking the Pacific Crest Trail used a Garmin satellite communicator to send an emergency alert. One of them, a 60-year-old Arlington woman, had tripped over a fallen tree and suffered a serious laceration to her leg. She clearly needed urgent medical care. [. . .] Once aboard [the helicopter], she . . . captured possibly the greatest rescue selfie ever with a member of the Dustoff crew. The smile on her face tells the story of a remarkably resilient person.”

Scott shared her story on her personal Facebook page as well, saying, “Not all backpacking trips end the way you want them to . . .”

As the Sheriff’s Office reminded its online community, bad things can happen even to capable, experienced people.

See photos from the rescue of an injured PCT hiker below (including the selfie).

Header stock image by wuttipong charoensub/Getty Images

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