Within moments, the team figured out the best means to extract her from the mountain and get her down to the hospital. While Michelle is friends with and knew of the efficiency of the SAR team, she never imagined ever being the subject of their rescue operation. Thankfully they both had their cellphones and Dean, a fire captain with the Terrace Fire Department, placed an emergency call that ultimately led to the Search and Rescue team being activated through the fire department. “So I ended up in a big crash where I landed on my face and kind of lost feeling in my arms and hands and there was a lot of concern about my spine and just the general state of me.”Įven though she woke up to a pool of blood and a smashed nose, Michelle said she didn’t panic, since her husband, Dean, a first responder himself, who was biking with her, was very calm, collected and kept her focused. “But if you don’t do it right, you end up injured.”Īnd that day it seemed like the drop went pretty wrong. The four-foot-drop, labelled on the trail as a double black diamond feature is very controllable, according to Michelle. “I tried to do a feature on the trail that I had only done a couple of times before,” said Prins in a phone interview from her home where she is recovering. Prins, who is in her 50’s, has been mountain biking “her whole life” and had ridden the particular trail near the back-end of Shangri-La where she had the accident, “a 100 times before.” 9, Michelle had a crash on Terrace Mountain and had to be airlifted and taken to the hospital.

Terrace resident Michelle Prins had a harrowing experience earlier this month when a routine mountain biking adventure went awfully wrong.

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