Emergency medical services, search and rescue teams and the RCMP joined forces on Easter Sunday to get an injured snowmobiler to hospital after his snow machine took a 20-metre drop off a cliff near the Skagway summit.

Search and rescue volunteers and ambulance attendants from Carcross were called to the summit Sunday afternoon, where one RCMP officer was already on patrol, Sgt. Mark Groves explained today.

The search and rescue team brought the injured man out to the road, and EMS took him to Whitehorse General Hospital.

From the capital, he was medevaced to Vancouver.

The Mounties had officers at both the Haines and Skagway summits over the long weekend, to keep an eye on the dozens of snowmobilers, skiers and campers who were out for the long weekend.

Although there was only one significant injury over the four-day holiday, police checkstops in Whitehorse, Haines Junction and Fraser, B.C. resulted in almost 30 traffic tickets and one arrest for suspected drunk driving.

In the Junction, seven tickets were issued and two vehicles were impounded.

Near Fraser, about seven kilometres from the Alaskan border, 10 tickets were handed out and one driver was arrested.

In Whitehorse, another 10 tickets were given and two vehicles impounded.