Amazing (to me) the level of smartassery hereabouts.
I don’t think we are mocking her. It’s just that I’ve read lots of hiking stories and there was usually a GOOD REASON why the people were stuck or lost. She doesn’t seem to have had one. She wrote her experiences down so we know she didn’t have a broken leg or fever or whatever.
And apparently no compass or couldn’t start a fire. It’s like she is one of those dumb kids who have never hiked and think they can. But she was supposed to be experienced.
It is not “smartassery” to want people to know how to stay alive if they choose to wander away from roads and motels. It did not require much knowledge to survive the situation she found herself in, but unfortunately she lacked that little bit of knowledge even though she was said to be an “experienced” hiker.