Hikers On Mushrooms: Our Friend Is Dead (He Wasn’t)

USA Today reports:

Two hikers mistakenly thought a companion, the third member of their hiking party, was dead and reported the false death. However, they were later determined to be in “an altered mental state” after ingesting mushrooms, according to officials.

On May 24, at 9 a.m. local time, a forest ranger responded to a call on Cascade Mountain in New York State after two hikers called 911 to report the death, according to the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, DEC.

The two hikers also told the Cascade Summit Steward that they were lost. “The steward determined the hikers were in an altered mental state,” the agency stated. The third member of the hiking group was not injured, reported the DEC.

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Two hikers in New York’s Adirondack Mountains called 911 to report a third member of their party had died, but it turned out they had taken hallucinogenic mushrooms and were mistaken, officials say. pic.twitter.com/0mV3z693zQ

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