LAKE PLACID — Forest rangers rescued three more people in the eastern High Peaks Wilderness this weekend, including two who spent unplanned nights in the woods, according to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

One snowshoer spent the night out after he tried to climb Algonquin Peak on Friday; the other had been attempting Mount Marcy on Saturday, according to Enterprise reporter Mike Lynch.

The rescues come less than a week after a Saratoga Springs snowshoer, Steve Mastaitis, spent an unplanned night in a snow cave he dug near the summit of Mount Marcy. Forest rangers rescued Mastaitis on Tuesday morning.

Read the Enterprise's hospital interview with Mastaitis here.

The first rescue this weekend took place Saturday evening and involved Mike Jones, a 42-year-old man from Andover, Conn.

Jones had attempted to climb Algonquin on Friday, but he encountered problems due to a snowstorm.

The other man who spent an unplanned night in the woods was 36-year-old Matthew Bradley of Lee, Mass.

Bradley became the second hiker within a week to spend a night in a snow cave on Mount Marcy, although he was much lower on the mountain than Mastaitis had been Monday night.

Forest rangers found Bradley on Sunday morning off the trails in a drainage area on the southwestern slopes of Table Top Mountain, a few miles downhill from the summit of Marcy.

The third rescue took place not far from the Klondike Notch Trailhead off South Meadow Road. It was squeezed in between the rescue of Jones and Bradley on Saturday evening.

Brian Sullivan, 62, of Brooklyn, had planned to ski to the Mount Van Hoevenburg Nordic ski center at the Olympic Sports Complex via Johns Brook, the Klondike Notch Trail and the Mr. Van Trail.

Sullivan started the trip at 10:30 a.m. Around 7:30 p.m., his wife reported him overdue. Seven forest rangers began searching from both ends of Sullivan's planned ski route.

He was located at about 9 p.m., when a rescuer heard him shouting in the vicinity of the Klondike Notch Trailhead, near where the bridge had been washed away during Tropical Storm Irene on Aug. 28.

Read the full story here.