Members of the Park County Search and Rescue team and others rescued a 49-year-old woman from the Beartooth Mountains on Sunday, after she injured her knee skiing down a steep slope.

It was a technical, multi-hour mission: At the time of her injury, the Joliet, Montana, skier was between 650 and 750 feet down the Gardner Headwall. The slope is a popular spot for skiing, located roughly a mile southwest of the Beartooth Basin Summer Ski Area in the Shoshone National Forest.

Emergency responders — including members of the Park County and Red Lodge, Montana, search and rescue teams and the Cody Regional Health Ambulance Wilderness Response Team — were summoned to the scene shortly after 5 p.m.

“By 8:30 p.m., the rescuers were beginning the process of lowering the litter to the injured skier,” said Charla Baugher Torczon, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.

Using a technical rope system, four search and rescue members descended the 650 foot slope to the injured woman, Baugher Torczon said. The skier was then packaged on a litter and rescuers began lifting her back up the headwall just after 10 p.m.

“By 11:45 p.m. the victim was delivered to a waiting Cody Regional Health ambulance,” Baugher Torczon said.

Red Lodge Search and Rescue said the lift “was well executed by the cooperation of both teams — and a rockstar patient.”

Sheriff Scott Steward praised both the response and the expertise of the volunteers involved in the evacuation.

“The dangerous terrain made for a very risky rescue operation,” Steward said in a release, “but the skill set, training, and dedication of all of the teams involved made for swift and safe rescue.”

It was a busy weekend in the Beartooths for emergency responders.

On Saturday, Red Lodge Search and Rescue, passersby and a crew with the air ambulance Help Flight attempted to save a man who was found on the Hellroaring Plateau in southern Montana.

Help Flight was able to land near to a high mountain lake, at more than 10,000 feet, but “despite the heroic efforts of the group of people who came upon the patient, he passed away,” Red Lodge Search and Rescue said in a Facebook post. “Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of this individual and we are lifted knowing that they were out there doing what they loved.”