Officials performed two rescues over the weekend in the White Mountains, one to carry out a sick woman from high on a ridge trail, and the other to escort out a pair whose travels had become so slow that their companions were worried they wouldn’t get out of the woods.

The first rescue happened the evening of Saturday, Aug. 4, when Sarah Yankee, 39, of East Haddam, Conn., fell ill while hiking the Garfield Ridge, between Mount Layafette and Mount Garfield. It was so late that she couldn’t be rescued, so staff from the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Galehead hut escorted her to the Garfield tent site, where she spent the night.

On Sunday, Yankee could not walk and was carried out by volunteers from a number of groups, including the Pemigewasset Valley Search and Rescue Team, Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team, the United Sates Forest Service, Twin Mountain Fire Department and the AMC.

About the time Yankee’s rescue was winding down, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game, reports came in of overdue hikers who were doing the “Pemi Loop,” a trip through the Pemigewasset Wilderness that can be as long as 31 miles.

Two 20-year-old women were hiking as part of a larger group but had separated from them on Mount Bondcliff at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday “because of a pre-existing injury to one hiker that kept her pace slower than the rest of the party.”

The group reached Lincoln Woods but dialed 911 after not having contact with their companions for four hours.

Conservation officers with Fish and Game responded to Lincoln Woods and were able to locate the overdue hikers on the Lincoln Woods Trail a short distance from the trailhead. The hiking party underestimated the time it would take to reach the trailhead and were unable to communicate with each other because of poor cellular reception throughout the wilderness.