Hiker found dead near top of Hunter Mountain
Taken down steep trail by sled Sunday night
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The Hunter Mountain fire tower observer's cabin as seen from the fire tower. (Herb Terns / Times Union)
HUNTER -- State forest rangers on Sunday recovered the body of a dead hiker found near the top of Hunter Mountain in the Catskills, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.
DEC dispatchers got a call at 1:30 p.m. reporting that an unresponsive man was on the Becker Hollow trail near the summit of Hunter, one of several trails on the mountain, which is separate from the summit of the ski area of same name.