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Fatality — Arethusa Falls Trail, Sep 26, 2020

·Arethusa Falls Trail

Adult man (name not released by NHFG) · party of 3

Shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday September 26, 2020, NHFG was notified that a hiker had fallen at Arethusa Falls in Crawford Notch. He had gone ahead of his two friends to the top of the falls; when they arrived they found his body. Rescuers carried him out, reaching the trailhead just before 11 p.m. This was the third hiking-related death in the White Mountains in six days.

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Off trail
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