The body of 22 year old Kirk Reiser was found on Friday after a week of searching, raising the number of avalanche related deaths this season to six.  Reiser was hiking with a friend outside of Paradise, Washington toward Camp Muir when bad weather forced them to turn back about halfway to their destination.  On the return back, Reiser set off an avalanche that swept him down the mountain where he disappeared. 

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Heads-Up Hikers – Some hiking trails may be closing periodically over the next two months due to hunting season.

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According to the Southern Arizona Rescue Association, the number of hiking-related incidents in Arizona was up this year, in part because of an increase in population in the state. “It’s [hiking incidents] not really that they didn’t plan enough ahead, its just they didn’t look at reality,” said Richard Kunz, a rescue worker for over 40 years.

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Peter Noble, a 44-year-old man from Oakland, California died on Sunday at Yosemite National Park after inclement weather trapped him and his climbing partner on Cathedral Peak at night. They had set out on their hike Saturday with the expectation to return that evening but snow set in and deterred them from descending down the peak.  They were able to get off the mountain on Sunday morning but Noble was unable to make the last mile and a half hike to Tioga Pass Road. His climbing partner went on ahead and found a ranger around 7:30am who then sent rescue crews out to try to retrieve Noble. When rescue workers found him, he was deceased.

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The Arizona Daily Sun reported on Tuesday that search crews found a pair of hikers Sunday who became lost near Humphreys Summit. The hikers, having remembered to bring a cell phone with them on their hike, called 911 around 7:00pm and Search and Rescue volunteers were quickly dispatched to the area. The hikers, a 32-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman were hiking the summit when they meandered off the marked trail and got lost. The lost hikers built a fire to keep warm which helped the helicopter crew spot them. The hikers were found around 11:30pm that evening.

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