I don't want to start any rumors, perhaps this was a training exercise, but there appeared to be a helicopter performing a rescue on North Pal Friday evening.
My friends and I were rolling into camp at Sam Mac meadows at about 5pm Friday evening. We'd been hearing a helicopter in the area for about 30 minutes. I soon realized it was hovering around N. Pal. After a while it went away and came back with what appeared to be a person hanging from a cord below the heli (perhaps it was gear rather than a person?). The chopper hovered over the mountain, dropped off the payload, and moved away from the mountain. The chopper stayed in the area for another 5-10 minutes, but I never saw it pick anybody up again (though it may have picked somebody up outside of my line of sight).
When we summited on Saturday nobody had signed the log, and there was no indication of a rescue.
Google hasn't turned up anything. Anyone hear of something going down on North Pal this weekend?