hiker rescues

New Hampshire Fish and Game said a hiker from Massachusetts died Saturday while hiking a trail on West Rattlesnake Mountain in Holderness.

A team of rescuers carried a Somerville hiker off Mount Monadnock Saturday after a leg injury.

New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say a 62-year-old man died after a rescue from the Welch-Dickey trail, a popular hiking loop in the White Mountain National Forest.

Fish and Game Sergeant Matthew Holmes knows the severe winter weather this weekend won’t stop some hikers.

Authorities say hikers were unprepared for the journey and started a nine mile loop in the afternoon, which was too late.

Dozens of hikers were caught unprepared on Mount Washington and in the White Mountains, as winter conditions set in at higher elevations.

The two experienced hikers fought chest-deep snow and freezing temperatures before huddling in snow to wait for rescuers.

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We sit down with Glenn Normandeau, Executive Director of New Hampshire Fish and Game (at left). We discuss recent headlines about his agency: from public…

Legislators want to talk to federal officials about paying for hiker rescues in the White Mountain National Forest.But the head of the state Department of…