“Very tragic, we used to get a lot of people from back east that would go hunting in the mountains and die. Seems she had no ability to even make a fire for signal? you need to have some basic preparations to be able to survive and be found... very sad.”
Sad, but also stupid. If she had an operable cell phone then she had a compass. She could have shot an azimuth east. And walked instead of staying stationary. Eventually, she would have come upon a road, traveled trail, etc. apparently her thinker was broke.....
She apparently never built any fire for at least a smoke signal?? something since they would have been searching close to where she was...
If you are going into the woods you need to have some basic skills, at least to signal with.