SIGNAL PEAK
New Mexico - Grant County - Gila National Forest
June 10, 2014: John Kavchar, the lookout on Signal Peak, died Saturday evening in an accident involving the horse that he was riding. Apparently the horse lost it's footing in the loose soil of the recent wildfire. The fall pinned the rider against a tree and the resulting trauma caused his death, no report on the cause for the horse's expiration. The accident occurred on the trail between Black Peak and Signal Peak in an area recently burned in the Signal Peak Fire..