2 lost hikers reported a friend dead. Ranger learns they were actually just on mushrooms
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KEENE, N.Y. (WJW) – A group of friends set out on an exciting Memorial Day adventure in New York’s Adirondack High Peaks, but it quickly turned into a different kind of journey.

A ranger was sent to Cascade Mountain on Saturday at around 9 a.m. after two hikers made a 911 call reporting that one of their fellow hikers had passed away, according to a news release from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation.

The hikers then encountered a Cascade Summit Steward—an individual involved in a park program dedicated to assisting visitors and preserving the mountain’s ecosystems—and shared their situation, including that they were also lost.

A view across Mirror Lake looks southwest toward the Adirondack High Peaks areas on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, in Lake Placid, N.Y. (Will Waldron/Albany Times Union via Getty Images)

Once a ranger arrived on scene, the steward told them that the two “hikers were in an altered mental state,” having allegedly ingested hallucinagenic mushrooms, according to the release.

These types of mushrooms, according to the Cleveland Clinic, lead to heightened sensory awareness, but can also lead to a “bad trip,” which can “cause frightening hallucinations, terror, depression or panic attacks.”

The third hiker also contacted officials, confirming they were alive and uninjured.

The third hiker was escorted back to the campsite, while the two others were taken to an ambulance, where police were also waiting.

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