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Posted on 12/23/2025 2:21:50 PM PST by xxqqzz
Two teenage hikers in distress, with no food, water, warm clothes, or cold-weather gear, were rescued late Friday night after another hiker found them soaking wet and freezing after they fell into a brook on Mount Monadnock in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, officials said.
According to a New Hampshire Fish and Game press release, at around 10 p.m. on Dec. 19, the other hiker called New Hampshire State Police, who contacted the Fish and Game Department to request a rescue of the two hikers in distress on the Ferry Spring Trail.
Through contact via cellphone, officers found out that the two hikers fell into the brook and were wet and freezing as high winds, dropping temperatures, and their soaking wet clothes created a “life-threatening situation.”
Fish and Game conservation officers, along with volunteers with the Upper Valley Wilderness Response Team, responded.
The department said the two hikers were 18-year-olds from Winchendon, Massachusetts.
Rescuers reached the pair at around 11 p.m. The department said one of the teens was able to walk down the mountain on his own, and rescuers assisted him back to a vehicle to warm up.
However, the other was unable to move and was suffering from cold-weather injuries. Rescue crews got him out of his frozen clothes and began to warm him up. Rescuers found him to be heavily intoxicated, the department said.
The release said rescuers learned that the pair began their hike at 5:30 p.m., after dark.
Rescue crews got the injured teen to an awaiting ambulance by 2 a.m. First responders then transported him to Heywood Hospital in Massachusetts.
The department said the injured teen was charged with being a minor in possession of alcohol, and it recommended billing the pair for the rescue.
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STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES
Probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
Step 1) Start drinking heavily
Step 2) Wait until dark
Step 3) Begin your ascent of the mountain in winter
I hiked up Mount Monadnock many years ago.
Quite a hike, great views from the top.
But I did it in daylight. In the summer. And I wasn’t drunk.
Mt.Monadnock is the second most climbed mountain in the world.
Where’s Darwin and his theory, when needed....
Sounds like a plan!
Probably why you are still alive.
(Or at least, went I.)
If you can dream it you can do it!
Wannabe druids/wiccans
Solstice hike.
The Mrs and I climbed it many years ago. We took a nice trail from the west. When we got to the summit it was packed with teens with boom boxes, etc. We didn’t know there was a much shorter trail from a parking lot closer to the summit.
Another time we went up North Pack, a much lower mountain near Monadnock. On the way down there was a group of teens struggling to carry a large cooler up the hill. They weren’t making much progress. I wonder what the cooler contained...LOL.
Mount Monadnock is a walk in the Park. Mount Washington (about 100 miles away) is notoriously dangerous. Mount Monadnock is likely the most climbed mountain in the world.
How pathetic.
So when they are grown they know enough not to do stupid things like this.
“ Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.”
- Dean Vernon Wormer
Last time I climbed that mountain it was dark, during a blizzard, and I was three sheets to the wind. I did it no problem.
Probably 4 years ago there was a story of hiker couple in their 20s who took their dog on a long journey up a winding mountain trail.
At the top their dog was “too pooped to walk any more” according to the clever and witty AP (/S).
A rescue helicopter was finally sent to take all three to safety. The dog was too frightened of the noise so the helicopter pilot had to fully shut down the engines. But they made it home.
The couple was shocked to learn they were being charged the cost of the rescue and given a fine for reckless behavior.
I guess Stephen King will pass up using the story as it only shows the stupidity of most people now.
If they had sought shelter at night in an abandoned old house the locals know never to enter, then maybe.
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