First responders rescued a 26-year-old female visitor from New York on Kauai’s Kalalau Trail on Sunday, November 12th, 2023, reports the County of Kauai.
Firefighters were dispatched to a report of a female with an apparent head injury near the Kalalau Trail shortly before 1:35 p.m. on Sunday.
Personnel with the Hanalei fire station and Rescue 3 aboard Air 1 responded to the incident.
According to a preliminary report, first responders located the hiker below the trail shortly before 2:30 p.m., being tended to by fellow hikers. The hiker fell approximately 60 feet off the trail and injured her head.
Upon arrival, first responders loaded the hiker onto Air 1 and transported her to the Princeville Airport to awaiting American Medical Response and KFD personnel. AMR personnel continued treatment of the hiker. She declined medical transport to the hospital and was released.
Kauai’s Kalalau Trail is regarded as one of the most beautiful, and most deadly, trails in the world. The trail traverses 11 miles of the island’s epic sea cliffs of the Na Pali Coast. Some sections of the trail are only 1-2 feet wide, with precipitous drops that can certainly be deadly. One particularly perilous section is aptly known as Crawler’s Ledge, just past mile marker 7. However, the report did not state the location of this woman’s fall.
