{"id":210538,"date":"2025-09-08T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210538\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:43:10","slug":"four-hikers-on-magic-mushrooms-one-with-debilitating-high-rescued-in-new-york-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/210538\/","title":{"rendered":"Four hikers on magic mushrooms, one with \u2018debilitating high\u2019, rescued in New York | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four hikers who had consumed psychedelic mushrooms \u2013 including one experiencing a \u201cdebilitating high\u201d \u2013 had to be rescued from New York<\/a>\u2019s Catskill Mountains after they got lost there, according to state authorities.<\/p>\n

In a news release<\/a>, forest rangers from the the New York state department of environmental conservation (DEC) said that they were alerted to the situation at about 5pm on 29 August after the receipt of a satellite text.<\/p>\n

The message came from a hiker who reported that a group of four hikers were lost near Giant Ledge in the Slide Mountain Wilderness \u2013 an interconnected trail hike<\/a> with elevations ranging from 1,100 to 2,600ft and several sheer cliffs and drops.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe original caller admitted the group had consumed mushrooms and one of them was experiencing a debilitating high,\u201d the DEC said.<\/p>\n

Three forest rangers responded and located the group at approximately 6.45pm. They helped the group to the trailhead, where the hikers were evaluated by a Shandaken ambulance crew.<\/p>\n

Complicating matters for the group of hikers was the fact that they had also lost their car keys, the news release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRangers provided a courtesy ride to the subjects\u2019 rental lodging,\u201d authorities said. They added that ranger Russell Martin \u201chiked back up\u201d the following day and \u201cfound a sling bag with the keys under a log in tall ferns\u201d.<\/p>\n

Martin, who participated in the rescue, told the New York Times<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m not an expert in mushrooms, but these gentlemen definitely rode highs and lows.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DEC did not release the names of the hikers, but Martin said that all four were men in their 20s.<\/p>\n

The Police Benevolent Association of New York State, a law enforcement union, commended the rangers\u2019 efforts in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis level of dedication, at the start of a busy Labor Day weekend, is representative of the commitment shared by our forest ranger members,\u201d the union said. \u201cThe PBA of New York<\/a> State is proud to highlight our forest rangers and all members\u2019 continued dedication to public safety in the face of difficulty and danger.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rescue in the Catskills called to mind a similar case from May, in which two hikers who had reportedly ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms called authorities to report that a third member of their group had died.<\/p>\n

But, when the rangers arrived, they found the third individual alive and uninjured. It was determined that the two hikers were in an \u201caltered mental state\u201d, a news release<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The two hikers who had \u201cingested hallucinogenic mushrooms\u201d were escorted to a waiting ambulance as well as a New York state police cruiser, and the third was taken back to the group\u2019s campsite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four hikers who had consumed psychedelic mushrooms \u2013 including one experiencing a \u201cdebilitating high\u201d \u2013 had to be…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":210539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-210538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115169447805852007","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}