[pct-l] 80-year-old hiker found dead on trail in SW Washington

[Jeffrey Olson]

On a section hike in 1998 a friend and I got to the top of the ridge on 
the other side of Lake Valhalla and there were two women doing cpr on a 
guy lying in the middle of the trail.  They'd been at it for two hours.  
To us he was obviously beyond recovery. 


 As we stood around, talking with the other elderly hikers, a helicopter 
landed a hundred  yards away and a couple of guys ran up.  When they saw 
the fellow was dead they got a bit disgusted.  That's when we left.  The 
group of Seattle day hikers were all part of an elders hiking group and 
they said they thought this is the way the guy would have wanted to go. 


Jeffrey Olson
martin, SD

Stephen Clark wrote:
> It could be very traumatic discovering something like this but isn't it the way we all want to go... doing what we love most??? 
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