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NEW YORK<\/strong> – A hiking trip took a “trippy” turn that ended with a group having to be rescued from a popular mountain destination in New York State last month.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Dispatch received a 911 text reporting that four hikers were lost near Giant Ledge in the Slide Mountain Wilderness of the Catskill Mountains.<\/p>\n The group had ingested psychedelic mushrooms, and one of them was experiencing a debilitating high, according to the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n He was hallucinating about a nonexistent bridge, according to FOX News.<\/a><\/p>\n Less than two hours later, forest rangers found the stranded hikers less than 1,000 feet from the marked trail and guided them back to the trailhead for evaluation.<\/p>\n However, the rescue didn’t end there.<\/p>\n The hikers had lost their keys during the hike, which were found the next day under a log after a ranger hiked back up the trail.<\/p>\n Second time this year <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n FOX News reports that this is the second rescue involving mushrooms in the mountains of New York this year.<\/p>\n In May, two hikers who had taken psychedelic mushrooms mistakenly reported to authorities that a member of their party had died in the Adirondack Mountains.<\/p>\n They were rescued by a ranger, taken to a local hospital, then reunited with the third hiker at their campsite.<\/p>\n What are psychedelic mushrooms? <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Psychedelic mushrooms contain psilocybin, a hallucinogen that can trigger vivid hallucinations, a warped sense of time and rapid mood swings.\u00a0<\/p>\n They are commonly known as “magic mushrooms.”<\/p>\n In New York, it is illegal to possess, sell or cultivate psychedelic mushrooms.<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information from this article was sourced from the the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and FOX News.<\/p>\n New York<\/a>News<\/a>Wild Nature<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK – A hiking trip took a “trippy” turn that ended with a group having to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,159,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,1581],"class_list":{"0":"post-212942","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-news","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-wild-nature"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212942","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=212942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}