Mountain biker stable after falling on rock

A 55-year-old man was in serious but stable condition Tuesday after he fell off his mountain bike and landed on a rock.

The accident occurred about noon on the Shoreline Trail near Terrace Hills Drive, northeast of the Avenues area of Salt Lake City.

Dennis McKone, administrative assistant to the Salt Lake City fire chief, said it took about 70 minutes for firefighters to move the man off the trail and prepare him to be taken by helicopter ambulance to LDS Hospital.

"The crew really worked hard in this heat to get him up a steep, about 100-yard embankment to the chopper that was waiting," McKone said.

The man fell while biking with his daughter and several other people, some of whom went to a nearby fire station for help. The rock struck the man on his side, McKone said.