Young hiker assisted out of the woods in Randolph

LOW AND BURBANKS GRANT — On the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 11, New Hampshire Fish and Game Department Conservation Officers responded to the Valley Way Trail on Mount Madison to assist a young man who had sustained an ankle injury while hiking.

At 2:40 p.m., conservation officers were made aware of a 15-year-old hiker who had suffered an ankle injury while jumping rock-to-rock at the intersection of Valley Way and Watson Path. The hiker was part of a group of 31 members of the Haverhill, Massachusetts Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, who were day hiking in the area. Conservation officers instructed the group to work together to hobble the teen down the trail while they responded with ATVs.