Early morning rescue of hiker on North Shore
By Kaleb Roedel, KRNV-TV
An injured hiker was rescued this morning near Bonsai Rock at on the North Shore, according to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office.
Bob Harmon with WCSO says at about 1:3am March 20 the sheriff’s office received a report of a hiker at Bonsai Rock in Sand Harbor in need of medical attention.
Harmon says a couple, a male and a female, had parked along Highway 28 and were attempting to “walk down to the water’s edge” of Lake Tahoe when the man, in his 50s, started experiencing health problems.
