Injured Damascus hiker rescued near Ramona Falls after breaking ankle<\/p>\n
Published 9:31 pm Monday, April 6, 2026<\/p>\n
A 43-year-old man from Damascus was rescued after breaking his ankle while hiking on Mount Hood.<\/p>\n
David Cahill contacted emergency responders just before 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 4, via an SOS activation from a handheld satellite communicator. He was about 1.5 miles up the Ramona Falls Trail.<\/p>\n
Clackamas County Sheriff\u2019s Office Search and Rescue led the response. They were able to identify Cahill via the device\u2019s registration and contacted his family member. Using a cellphone tracking application, the family member confirmed Cahill\u2019s location.<\/p>\n
As deputies arrived at the trailhead, another 911 caller reported a hiker with a broken ankle. The rescue team consisted of eight Search and Rescue volunteers as well as two American Medical Response medics. They brought a wheeled litter for a pack-out.<\/p>\n
The team reached Cahill just after 8 p.m. They got him safely down the mountain. He was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
Cahill was hiking with a friend at Ramona Falls around noon. During the hike, he slipped on a rock and broke his right ankle. His hiking friend had the handheld satellite communicator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Injured Damascus hiker rescued near Ramona Falls after breaking ankle Published 9:31 pm Monday, April 6, 2026 A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-569209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}