District of North Vancouver firefighters have had to fish adventurers out of Lynn Canyon twice in the last week.
Firefighters responded to the canyon just after 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon after receiving a report that someone had fallen into 30-Foot Pool.
The department's water rescue team paddled up the canyon and found the subject out of the water, but with an injured ankle, according to assistant fire chief Jim Bonneville.
Because of the steep rock face, the least risky way to get the woman out was in a stretcher which was lifted up the canyon walls where she was handed off to waiting B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics.
On Monday afternoon, firefighters received a 9-1-1 call alerting them to two women and a man in their late teens or early 20s jumping from the Lynn Canyon suspension bridge. Thankfully, when they arrived on scene, crews found the reality to be much less deadly.
"We get there and it turns out they hadn't actually. They were jumping off some rocks," Bonneville said.
"The one girl seemed, from witness accounts, to be in distress. She seemed a little scared and hypothermic."
Firefighters quickly lowered a team down from the suspension bridge and made contact with the swimmers.
As a precaution, crews walked them up via the main trail to a waiting ambulance crew who checked them over and determined they didn't need any further medical care.
District firefighters are called somewhat regularly to Lynn Canyon for injured swimmers - roughly six times this summer.
"These days, that seems fairly normal to me. There used to be a lot more than that. That's for sure," said Bonneville, a 28-year veteran of the department. "When I first started, there were a few fatalities, actually."
Bonneville attributes the drop in Lynn Canyon calls and injuries to the addition of fencing and park rangers to dissuade people from trying to get to risky areas of the canyon.
