Missing hiker found dead in Franconia Notch

This is very sad. I've always found that going to the mountains enervates me and makes me feel better; perhaps that was the case here and his death was accidental, perhaps not. Regardless of the scenario, my heart goes out to his family and friends.

http://theunionleader.com/article.a...rticleId=9a88030e-31e8-4465-978e-a3dabba897da

MichaelJ said:

enervates

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Do you mean energize? Enervate has the opposite meaning.

Thanks for sharing the sad conclusion to the missing hiker story.

Er, yeah. Wow, I got that one wrong.

Final update on the story from the family.

That's very sad. When I lived out west, hikers disappeared all the time. They were usually found, dead from a fall, but sometimes they never turned up or only years and years later. I remember one time when tens of thousands of people fanned out to find a scout who had wandered away from his camp. The search was massive, but they never found him.

The father of the missing boy started a volunteer organization to help people in similar situations and a few years later they found another scout who had been missing for three days. He was cold and hungry, but alive.

edit: Sorry, I just read the follow up article and saw that he apparently ended his life on purpose.

Tragic -------------------------my sympathy to his family