LIVERMORE — A hiker found unconscious and not breathing on the Signal Ridge trail died Saturday afternoon.
On Saturday, at approximately 12:30 p.m., 911 Dispatch received a call for an unconscious non-breathing hiker on the Signal Ridge Trail in Livermore. The unconscious hiker’s location was approximately 4 miles from the trailhead parking area on Sawyer Brook Road in Crawford Notch.
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