FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — Two separate falls on icy terrain sent hikers to the hospital this week and required helicopter rescues from the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona’s tallest mountain range.
The first call came in around 11 a.m. Sunday, when deputies responded to the San Francisco Peaks on reports that two hikers had fallen into the Inner Basin, a steep bowl in the center of the mountain range.
Both fell a few hundred feet from Humphreys Saddle, a high-elevation pass at roughly 11,800 feet between Humphreys and Agassiz peaks…