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KEENE, N.Y. (WJW) — What began as a fun Memorial Day trip through New York’s Adirondack High Peaks for a group of friends turned into another kind of trip.
A ranger was dispatched to Cascade Mountain Saturday around 9 a.m. after two hikers called 911 to say a third person who was hiking with them had died, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation said in a news release.
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The two then reportedly ran into a Cascade Summit Steward — who is part of a park program that works to help visitors and keep the mountain ecosystems healthy — and told them of their plight, adding they were lost.
Once a ranger arrived on scene, the steward told them the two “hikers were in an altered mental state,” according to the release. The two hikers reportedly took hallucinogenic mushrooms…