I have hiked parts of the AT in NJ,NY & PA and have hunted the big woods of ME's Aroostook County. I know haw vague the trail can become in certain areas and have had a hunting partner get disoriented in the ME woods. So I can understand the situation, the surprising part to me is that the Warden Service's search failed to find her when she was only 1K yards off the trail. I would have thought the search would've extended that far to either side of the trail in the vicinity of her last known location. How her tent escaped detection by searchers in the air and on the ground is pretty puzzling too. There's more to the story especially since evidence seems to show she made little or no effort to extricate herself from her predicament. The BR story sounds really suspicious, I've never lost sight of the trail when I've had to answer nature's call.
