A man who was trapped in a hot tub for 30 hours at Bagby Hot Springs was rescued Tuesday night by search and rescue teams with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

The man, who was not identified, hiked into the remote hot springs outside Estacada on Monday but became weak and ill, due to a medical issue, and was unable to get out of the tub through the night and into the next day, said Marcus Mendoza, spokesman for the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.

“The subject just stated he was too weak to get out," Mendoza said. "He waited there until he was rescued and in good spirits was transported to a hospital for treatment. He wasn’t in distress and they were able to basically load up and pack him out.”

A call for the man’s rescue came Tuesday afternoon from a group that had been at the hot springs that morning but had hiked out and reached a phone.

Bagby Hot Springs is in a remote area of Mount Hood National Forest on the Hot Springs Fork of the Collawash River, a tributary of the Clackamas River. It’s home to multiple cedar bathtubs where hot springs water flows into tubs below old-growth forest.

There were a few inches of snow on the trail, but apparently it was possible to reach the trailhead on Forest Service roads.

Two search and rescue deputies with American Medical Response’s Reach and Treat team responded, hiking in 1.5 miles, while others set up communications at the trailhead. Another 25 members of Pacific Northwest Search and Rescue also arrived on the scene.

After reaching the patient, they extracted him from the tub and “packaged him up” in a backcountry litter and carried him out.

They had him out and en route to the hospital around 8 p.m., Mendoza said.

“If you are out and about recreating and you see someone from search and rescue, tell them ‘thanks,’” Clackamas County deputy Scott Meyers said in a Twitter post. “They volunteer their time to help rescue people injured or lost in the outdoors.”

Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter, photographer and videographer in Oregon for 12 years. Urness can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6801. Find him on Twitter at @ZachsORoutdoors.