WGXC-90.7 FM

New Jersey hiker dies near Hunter

Sep 20, 2023 12:55 pm

Porcupine Soup reports that another hiker died on the Greene County mountaintop last weekend, but this time it appears to be from natural causes. On Sept. 16 a 50-year-old New Jersey man complained of chest discomfort and breathing difficulty before collapsing on the Diamond Notch Trail in the Hunter-West Kill Wilderness near Hunter. When Greene County paramedics arrived they determined the man was deceased. New York State Police are investigating, but did not release the man's name. There have been several accidents on the mountaintop this summer, including a 16-year-old male dying Aug. 8 at Fawn’s Leap in Haines Falls. Read more about this story in Porcupine Soup.