Update (Thursday): The Ottawa County sheriff says a woman who fell 30 feet from a bridge near Bennington is in critical condition at a Wichita hospital.

Sheriff Keith Coleman identified the woman as 36-year-old Jessica Spears from Minneapolis. He says Spears is doing good. Her mother said she had surgery on her wrist Wednesday night, surgery on her leg today. Her face is still swollen, but she is awake and talking.

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The Ottawa County sheriff tells us a 36-year-old woman was geocaching (hunting for objects posted on a website by means of GPS coordinates) when she fell about 30 feet from the Solomon River bridge on K-18, south of Bennington.

Sheriff Keith Coleman says the woman fell onto rocks below. We're told a friend who was with the 36-year-old, called 911. The injured woman was transported to the Salina Regional Health Center in critical condition.

We know she suffered injuries to her head, leg and arms.

Coleman says the woman and her friend were parked north of the bridge and she fell over the east side of the bridge while geocaching.

Cobie Fledger says geocaching is popular around Ottawa County. Geocachers use GPS coordinates to look for virtual tokens. Fledger says the activity has taken him to some unusual places.

"We've climbed trees, climbed a lot of trees actually, went through a lot of brush. We've been on bridges, but not hanging off the side of them or anything," Fledger says.