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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Blanket in a bottle.
Fuji is the most often climbed mountain in the world.
Monadnock is second.
And the other one was stone cold sober?
2000 ft climb, 2 miles from the visitors center to the top according to the map.
PBS did a show on Mount Monadnock. Pretty much a monument to human stupidity.
Monadnock or Mt. Washington? Honestly, Mt. Monadnock is about as dangerous as the Enchanted Kingdom. If Disney World had an Alpine Adventure it would be a walk up Mt. Monadnock. (They'd add an overpriced snackbar.)
Monadnock. Burned twice, denuded of vegetation and soil. Small wonder it’s an easy hike. It looked pretty disgusting with all of the tourists.
Heading to southern Vermont, from Boston, I used to take Route 2 to Route 12, which passed through Winchendon and Fitzwilliam, N.H. on the way to Keene, then a short trip on Route 9 to the Connecticut River
I had a fair amount of experience in NH’s White Mountains in the winter, when I was not much older than these guys, and if you were not careful, they could be deadly. But Monadnock is in southwestern NH, and it’s only 3,165 feet high. You have to really go out of your way to screw up there.
It was, in May, a pleasant walk, if a bit crowded.
Thoreau would likely have run away, screaming.
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