A 16-year-old boy who fell off Angel's Rest trail Wednesday afternoon has been hospitalized at OHSU with serious injuries.

Multnomah County Sheriff's deputies say the boy was with other teens from Centennial High School about two miles up the trail around 1:30 p.m. before the fall.

"They were all hiking and he got too close to the edge and apparently slipped on some moss," the teen's dad, Kyle Snuggerud, told KATU. "He had his last grip and tumbled 100 to 120 feet."

He said Wednesday night that his son was in surgery for a broken femur.

An off-duty paramedic and his wife, an emergency room doctor who happened to be hiking in the area, helped stabilize the teen while they waited for rescue crews to airlift him out.

A Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter airlifted him out of the area just after 4 p.m. He was hospitalized at OHSU with head trauma and a possible spinal injury.



"All we know of now [are injuries to his] wrist, ribs, hips and legs. Lots of contusions," Snuggerud said.