New York State Department of Environmental Conservation rangers recently helped a group of hikers tripping on hallucinogenic mushrooms get back to a trailhead.
At about 5 p.m. on Aug. 29, the four hikers called for assistance after getting lost in the Slide Mountain Wilderness in Ulster County, New York, while high on the mushrooms, New York conservation officials said on social media Thursday.
While all four ingested the mushrooms, one of them was suffering a particularly debilitating high.
After three rangers went out to assist the group, the hikers were evaluated by medical professionals and returned to their rental lodging.
The incident isn’t the first time that forest rangers aided high hikers. In May, two lost hikers called for help and reported that a third member of their party was dead. In fact, the environmental department said, the third member was fine and the other two imagined the death while high on mushrooms.
