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'A hiker was killed by a mountain goat on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, a companion said Sunday.

Bob Boardman, 63, of Port Angeles, Wash., his wife Susan Chadd and their friend, Pat Willits, had gone for a day hike Saturday on the Switchback Trail to Klahhane Ridge, the Peninsula Daily News of Port Angeles reported.

The three had stopped for lunch at an overlook when a goat appeared and moved toward them, Willits said. When the goat became aggressive, Boardman urged her and Chadd to leave the scene, the newspaper said. Then he tried to shoo the ram away.

Although Boardman also tried to leave, the goat attacked him, goring him in the thigh, the report said.

At 1:23 p.m., park rangers called the Coast Guard. A Coast Guard helicopter crew made it to Klahhane Ridge at 1:51 p.m., Lt. Cmdr. Scott Sanborn said.

An emergency medical technician was lowered to administer electric shock to revive Boardman. He had no pulse, Sanborn said, and was lifted into the helicopter, where the crew restarted resuscitation efforts, the Peninsula Daily News Report said.

Boardman arrived at Olympic Medical Center in Port Angeles at 2:47 p.m., where further efforts to revive him were unsuccessful. (c) UPI'

Thanks to Post Chronicle for the spot.