From the State Park Facebook page:
At approximately 11:10am on Sunday, September 2nd, California State Parks was notified of an adult female hiker that was struggling on the Skyline Route (Palm Springs up to Grubbs notch). The male and female couple started the hike around 2am then because physically exhausted and couldn’t continue. The location of the hikers was around 5600 ft. level. California Highway Patrol (CHP) H-60 helicopter was called in to assist. CHP located the two subjects and with assistance from State Parks both persons were safely hoisted up. Both persons were flown to Long Valley and transferred to State Parks personnel. Both persons appeared to good condition and were later released. This also will be last rescue for State Park Aide Sam Aguilar who is moving on to bigger and better things has been huge part of this team over the past 12 years, you will be missed! A Big Thanks goes out to crew of CHP H-60 for their assistance.
I guess one good thing about the Tram closure September 10 is that nobody who has no business doing Skyline will be able to do it until October.