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MIDDLETOWN - A man who injured his leg while hiking Saturday in Hartshorne Woods Park needed the help of a technical rescue team, which lowered him down a steep slope to a boat waiting on the Navesink River. The man and two other people were hiking down an unmarked or “rogue” trail in the Rocky Point part of the park about 11:30 a.m. when the man fell, said Karen Livingstone, spokeswoman for the Monmouth County Park System. “They were new to Hartshorne,” she said. The park has more than 14 miles of trails through its nearly 800 acres and is bordered to the south by the Navesink River. It may be situated in the suburbs, but it can be deceptively challenging, even treacherous. ....