[MichaelJ]

A sad reminder that the mountains do carry dangers, even if the odds are terribly small that anything like this would happen, and at the moment someone was hiking by.

My deepest condolences to the family.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/mas..._boulder_dies/

Mass. hiker, 28, hit by boulder, dies
May 9, 2008
FRANCONIA, N.H.
A Massachusetts woman is dead after a boulder fell on her while she was hiking in New Hampshire with her family yesterday. Shu Qin, 28, of Wellesley was hiking Falling Waters Trail in Franconia when the 5-by-3-foot, 20-inch-thick boulder broke off a ledge and fell about 40 feet and struck her, according to Lieutenant Todd Bogardus of the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Bogardus said Qin suffered severe head injuries. She was taken to Littleton Regional Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. (AP)