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A 31-year old Ironman had lost his life just hours after he was bitten by a snake while hiking. According to the official report, Daniel Hohs was bitten by a rattlesnake. Soon after he was transported to St. Anthony\u2019s hospital in Lakewood, he was declared dead.<\/p>\n
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Daniel Hohs was on the Mount Galbraith trailhead located in Golden, Colorado, just a mile into the hike when he saw the dangerous snake biting him. The Jefferson County Coroner\u2019s Office admitted that his cause of death is pending further investigation.<\/p>\n
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Hohs had completed his first Ironman in August 2014 and reportedly moved to the area he was hiking in from Steamboat Springs.<\/p>\n
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\u201cDan was so vibrant,\u201d Health Gollnick, a former Ironman teammate, told The Denver Post<\/em>. \u201cHe had this huge smile and energy that just made you happy. It was contagious to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hohs was also known to have penned an essay in 2014 about the reason why he had turned to endurance sports to help him manage his bipolar disorder.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cEndurance sports have provided me with the motivation to improve all aspects of my life, deeply reflect on who I am, and most importantly, learn that I can do what I once thought was impossible,\u201d he wrote, according to The Denver Post.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 31-year old Ironman had lost his life just hours after he was bitten by a snake while hiking. According to the official report, Daniel Hohs was bitten by a rattlesnake. Soon after he was transported to St. Anthony\u2019s hospital in Lakewood, he was declared dead. Daniel Hohs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[72],"tags":[2016,2017,2015,2014,1191,2018],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-daniel-hohs","tag-daniel-hohs-dies","tag-ironman-dies","tag-ironman-dies-after-bitten-by-a-rattlesnake","tag-ironman-news","tag-latest-ironman-news"],"yoast_head":"\n