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Washington State's Green River, which runs through the city of Kent, about 15 miles south of Seattle, is actually a murky grayish color. The forest near it has long served as a dumping ground for old auto parts, battered furniture, cans and bottles. On March 31 a hiker hunting for mushrooms stumbled upon a human skull. During the next two days police investigators found the rest of that skeleton, along with the remains of three other women. The grisly discoveries brought to 20 the number of women from the Seattle area presumed to be victims of a mysterious...
...pair of beavers, infected with giardiasis disease--commonly known as back-packer's or hiker's disease because it is transmitted through outdoor water sources--could be "epidemic to people," said Wendell Dodge, director of the cooperative wildlife research unit at the Research Center...
Brockman was the third hiker to die in the White Mountains since March 24. --The B. U. World
...valley, pack trains and jeeps carry food and linen to the "High Sierra Camps" operated by the Yosemite Valley concessioniers. To the east, boyscouts and campfire girls pound dusty, mile-wide paths to the toilet-equipped camps beneath Mt. Whitney. But in the interior, the quiet is enveloping. A hiker of the trail may see no one for days, and those who visit the glacier lakes speak in whispers...
...Club were hiking through the peaceful fir woodlands of beautiful Point Reyes National Seashore, 30 miles northwest of San Francisco. They got separated, and Diana O'Connell, 22, never met her two friends at the end of the trail. A search party found O'Connell and another hiker, Shauna May, 23, in a wooded area, both shot through the head, their nude bodies criss-crossed on the ground. About a mile away from that slaying, two fully clothed but decomposed bodies were also found. Shot in the head, they were lying side by side face down...