A hiker bitten by a rattlesnake had to be airlifted out of a canyon on Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department, a man was hiking by himself in a remote area of Bee Canyon, east of Valle Vista, when he was bitten in the leg.

A sheriff’s helicopter located the man and airlifted him to the U.S. Forest Service’s Cranston Station.

The man was then taken by ambulance to a hospital.

– posted at 12:07 a.m. by Cathy Maestri