Good info, ki. Thanks for the welcome everyone.



This is pure speculation, but I wonder if she might have stayed put not necessarily because she felt she couldn't get out, but that, as an athlete, she did not want to injure herself further by forcing it if she didn't have to. After all, she had 6 layers of clothing and unlimited water, and knowing the trails as well as she did she may have assumed that someone would pass by sooner or later and that she'd be fine until then.

It appears to me that if she had realized how difficult it would be to find her and understood how dangerous a position she was in then she would have done everything possible to get out of there regardless of its effect on her injury.