Washougal woman hospitalized after falling over waterfall

A Washougal woman rescued, then hospitalized after falling over Spirit Falls on the Little White Salmon River near Cook, Washington, on Saturday, March 23.

At about 5:41 p.m. the Skamania County Sheriff’s Office received a report that indicated that the fallen hiker – Rachel Goodwin, 23 — had “fallen and gone over Spirit Falls” and “self-extricated to a bank and was behind the waterfall, unable to safely get out due to the hydraulics of the falls and steep cliff face,” according to a news release issued by the Skamania County Sheriff’s Offfice (SCSO).