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The hikers were on a trail just off of Trail Ridge Road. Trail Ridge Road, as the name implies, is an exposed high point along the continental divide that is one big lightning rod. Just about every year, out-of-state tourists that are unaware of the risk of hiking on exposed mountain ridges in the afternoon are struck in Rocky Mountain National Park. RMNP and the Pike's Peak area near Colorado Springs have had the most incidents of lightning strike casualties in Colorado over the past 60 years.
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