[at-l] hiker death?/ was a Park Ranger

[Snodrog5 at aol.com (Snodrog5@aol.com)]

In a message dated 1/16/04 1:09:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, Snodrog5@aol.com 
writes:

> ><<http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showa.html?article=31764>>


http://www4.fosters.com/news2004/January2004/January_16/News/reg_nh_0116a.asp

Elsewhere in the mountains, Fish and Game Department Lt. Robert Bryant said a 
park ranger who had been hiking in the mountains since Monday was found dead.

Kenneth R. Holmes, 37, of Athol, Mass., who worked at New Hampshire?s Mount 
Monadnock, told friends by cell phone on Tuesday that he planned to stay one 
more night after his friends left and he would be hitchhiking home Wednesday. 
That?s when temperatures fell to minus 44 and the wind chill approached 100 
degrees below zero.

Friends called Fish and Game when he didn?t show up. Bryant said the body was 
spotted from a helicopter in Franconia and was flown from the Twinwaytrail 
area Thursday afternoon, when the temperature was minus 25 with 20 mph winds.

Although Holmes was well equipped, including tent and stove, "in these 
extreme temperatures it?s not always going to cut it," Bryant said.