A 54-year-old woman collapsed and died Monday while hiking at Colorado National Monument, officials said, as the region experiences a heat wave.
A woman died while hiking in western Colorado on Monday as a heat dome blanketed pockets of the American West and drove up temperatures in a number of states. Marsha Cook, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was pronounced dead after collapsing around the two-mile mark of a hiking trail at Colorado National Monument, officials said Wednesday. She was 54.Mesa County Coroner's Office will investigate Cook's death and determine what caused it, the National Park Service said in a statement.
on Monday that a woman collapsed and lost consciousness while hiking the Lower Monument Canyon Trail. She collapsed roughly two miles into the hike, which is a loop that runs for about five miles. The park service describes the difficulty level of that hike as 'moderate to steep' and notes in the description that completing the full loop generally takes hikers between four and six hours.
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