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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PEOPLE

Christopher McCandless died from eating poisonous plants. There's every indication that he was a good survivalist. Stop drawing parallels between his poisoning and death from paralysis and a woman who couldn't find her way to a road 4 miles away in 20+ days while perfectly healthy![/quote]

I wonder if she was in some state of complete and utter physical and mental exhaustion, or was injured.  I can understand panicking at first, but I have a harder time understanding - if she was healthy- how after a bit of time she didn't figure out a plan and execute it.  I looked at the map and even in maine it is hard to see places where the trail is more than 10 miles from a road.  Follow a valley and/or stream and eventually you hit a road or a lake where, since it was July, you would hopefully find some people out recreating.  Alternately, if you hike just the first few hours of the day you can use the sun to navigate, although perhaps not practical in mountainous terrain.[/quote]

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