Four Bros Had To Be Rescued From The Catskill Mountains After Getting So High On Mushrooms That They Couldn't Find Their Way Out Of The Forest

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Source - A quad of boneheaded hikers had to be rescued by forest rangers after they suffered such a “debilitating psychedelic mushroom high” that they got lost in New York’s Catskill Mountains last Friday.

The intrepid rescuers with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation dedicated their evening to scouring the Slide Mountain Wilderness for the fried foursome, who sought help via a satellite text around 5 p.m., the department said.

The panicked hikers admitted to eating psychedelic mushrooms and explained that one of them was in the midst of “a debilitating high,” according to the DEC.

The area where the lost group took shelter was along an interconnected trail hike with elevations as high as 2,600 feet and lined with steep cliffs and precarious drops, James McCartney, president of the Police Benevolent Association of New York State, explained in a statement.

Nearly two hours later, the rangers had scaled the trail and helped the forlorn hikers back down with aid from the Pine Hill Fire Department.

Well done, fellas! I'm sure your mothers are proud. Happy that you didn't die, but also proud that despite the debilitating amount of psilocybin coursing through your veins, you knew when to throw in the towel. Can you imagine how high these guys must've been? How SCARED they had to be to in order to send a "satellite text" asking for help? That's why I never understood why people like to go on adventures when they're tripping. Fuck that. I'll be on the couch in the safety of my home, thank you very much. Psychedelic-inspired wanderlust is for children and Aaron Rogers. Adults sit in their house, panic, and wait for it to be over. 

The funniest part of this whole story is that once they were rescued one of guys realized he lost his keys so they needed a ride to to lodge…

One of the stoners had to be supported by two of their valiant rescuers as they stumbled back through the woods.

At some point during their elongated trip, one of the hikers realized they’d lost their car keys, so forest rangers also gave them an extra lift to their rental lodge where they could safely ride out the rest of their high.

The following day, one of the rangers hiked back up the trail and recovered the group’s sling bag they’d mistakenly placed “under a log in tall ferns,” according to the DEC.

“This level of dedication, at the start of a busy Labor Day weekend, is representative of the commitment shared by our Forest Ranger members. The PBA of New York State is proud tohighlight our Forest Rangers and all members’ continued dedication to public safety in the faceof difficulty and danger,” McCartney said.

Hilarious.  And all this over Labor Day weekend too. I wish I had a picture of these bros but something tells met they look exactly how you'd imagine they would look. Let this be a lesson to everyone out there - don't do mushrooms and if you do…do them in the house.