Two women were found after spending the night lost in the Superstition Mountains.
In an one-on-one interview, one of the hikers explained what happened and how grateful they are to those who helped get them out.
The hiker, who asked not to be named, said all the recent rain water washed away the trail markers, something that usually keeps them on track.
"It must have been 30 because there was ice on our canteens," she said. "It was super, super cold."
This woman is happy to be home and warm after getting lost and being forced to sleep in the Superstition Mountains.
She said it was supposed to be just another hiking day. Her husband dropped the two of them off, but soon after hitting the trail they realized something wasn't quite right.
"Toward the end, it was like where are we? We don't know where we are, we had to backtrack several times," she said.
The hike usually takes the women about 5 hours.
"Finally we just came to the conclusion that we were going to spend the night." "There's no way that we can hike out," she said. "We can't see."
Their cell phones died. They couldn't use GPS and it was getting too dark to see their trail maps. They only had a little bit of food and light jackets.
"We used our body heat," she said. "We're good girlfriends, so we just hugged each other."
They could see the rescue helicopters flying over them repeatedly.
"But the spotlight never hit us directly and we would jump up and down but they just never saw us," she said.
She just kept thinking one thing: "When are we going to see the light?"
Finally, they were spotted.
"There was a helicopter there and I was like okay we know we've made it." "It was at 8 o'clock in the morning that we were in the sheriff's truck, warm with some hot chocolate."
Luckily they didn't have to go to the hospital.
"Scary adventure and just a huge, huge shout out to everyone that helped," she said.
The big lesson she learned from all of this? No matter what, she will always take a safety pack with her when she goes hiking. You can never be too prepared.
