Four hikers were rescued after getting lost while “experiencing a debilitating psychedelic mushroom high” in New York’s Catskill Mountains on Aug. 29, authorities said.
The hikers were near Giant Ledge in the Slide Mountain Wilderness when they sent a text via satellite to Ray Brook Dispatch at 5 p.m., reporting that they were lost, according to a New York State Troopers press release and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
They took shelter near Giant Ledge, “an interconnected trail hike ranging from 1,100 to 2,600 feet in elevation with several sheer cliffs and drops,” according to the NYST release. The original caller admitted that the group had “consumed mushrooms and one of them was experiencing a debilitating high.”…