UPDATE: Rescue Underway for Hiker at Hook Mountain

Clarkstown police responded to Hook Mountain State Park in Upper Nyack at 12:30 p.m. Monday for a hiker who had fallen.

Responding patrol units and the Upper Nyack Fire Department are on scene and have made contact with the man hiker, who is in need of rescue from the mountainside, police said.

It appeared that the hiker may have fallen from the upper level plateau to a lower level.

There is no report of the hiker’s medical condition but he is verbally communicating with first responders.

The Rockland County High Angle Rescue Team is there planning the safest rescue of the hiker. Police will update the public as information becomes available. Any detailed information about this incident should be directed to the NYS Park Police.

Hook Mountain State Park is part of the Palisades Interstate Park system. Just north of the Nyacks, the Palisades ridge, which had moved inland to form a shallow bowl, returns to the river’s edge. The familiar columnar formations reappear as Hook Mountain, jutting its massive curved and quarried face into the river, according to the parks service. Hook Mountain’s southernmost summit rises to 728 feet, the second highest (after High Tor) along the Palisades ridge.

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