Strawberry Guava and stream water?
Sounds like it could have been worse. Why didn’t she have a GPS?
She has God to thank. Didn’t see Him mentioned in the article except at “I was like, Oh my God...” Probably a lib. Yoga, hiking, no belief system.
I have a friend whose son went hiking alone there after graduating high school. It was a present from his dad, a week in Hawaii.
He never found his body. They searched for months. The father quit working and looked and looked.
The theory was he walked up on some pot growers and got murdered.
Stream water is for drinking.
Compass - not even a compass?
“No, I have GPS on the phone” ... but she left it in the car.
Doh!!
(Also, don’t some smartphones have a compass?)
Been in that area, see Maui isn’t all that wide across the middle of the island which is actually two islands joined.
She was far away than where they were searching, and the guy that found her was fired from his day job by refusing to stop looking for her.
If i could afford it i would definitely live along the Haleakala road part way up the mountain, so beautiful. I left ashes of my departed dear friend Mollie Ragonesi along the road going to the summit of Haleakala.
Sounds like an episode of I Shouldn’t Be Alive.
I’m looking at this place on the map and it looks only a few square miles. What was she doing, walking in circles for 17 days?
Was she on Naked and Afraid?
Sorry. You have to be really stupid to get lost on an island for two weeks. I lived in Hawaii for thirty years. Hiked every island except Ni’ihau. Lost? Walk down hill until you reach a road or the beach. Turn left, or right, and continue until you get back where you started from. You would have to be brain dead to stay lost for two whole weeks on Maui.
Did she file a “flight plan” with a responsible adult?
Apparently the searchers spent a long time looking in the wrong place.
The book and movie deals on this should be worth $$Millions (regardless of what really happened).
She looked really bad off.