The June 8th headline comes from the Associated Press, and the injured hiker is me. More specifics are detailed in the Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal: “A Badlands hike took a turn for the worse for a 57-year-old Pennsylvania man Thursday morning when he slipped and got stuck in a rock crack near a steep overlook on Notch Trail.
“A UH-72 Lakota helicopter from the South Dakota National Guard and an air ambulance responded to extricate Dave Johnson, who was hiking alone when he ventured off the trail, slipped and fell down a crack in the rock face,” said Steve Thede, deputy superintendent of Badlands National Park.