Crime & Safety
Hiker Rescued From Underneath 3000-Pound Boulder: Police
Multi-agency team required to free man after he was pinned by the giant rock.
BOULDER, CO -- A man was freed after his leg became pinned underneath a giant boulder on Thursday afternoon in Eldorado Canyon State Park, according to the Boulder County Sheriff's Office. It took multiple rescue agencies several hours to extricate, stabilize, and evacuate him to a waiting ambulance. Rescuers estimated that the rock weighed between 1500 and 3000 pounds.
On Thursday, Dec. 27, shortly before 2 p.m. the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, along with personnel from the Rocky Mountain Rescue Group, Rocky Mountain Fire, City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks, City of Boulder Fire, City of Lafayette Fire, and North Metro Fire, were dispatched to a report of a male party who was pinned under a rock on the Eldorado Canyon Trail.
The man was transported to a local hospital with serious — but not life-threatening — injuries.
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