Michigan Backpacker Dies in the Smokies

(Associated Press)

A hiker has died on a backpacking trek in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A news release from the National Park Service identified the fatality as 26-year-old Ross Sabin Enderle of Pontiac.

Enderle was on a two-night backpacking trip with his brother, Ryan, and two friends. When they tried to awaken him Saturday morning at the Icewater Spring shelter, he was unresponsive.

Rangers brought Enderle’s body out of the backcountry on a litter to Newfound Gap and an autopsy was performed at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, N.C.

Officials are awaiting results of the autopsy and toxicology tests.

Park service spokeswoman Nancy Gray said there was no evidence of foul play in Enderle’s death.

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