Late But Not Lost

A good article about the ladies backpacking in the Boundary waters.

DULUTH -- Three days overdue in the northeastern Minnesota wilderness Thursday, the two women had lost their map and their way, and their food cache was down to a few handfuls of trail mix and chocolate chips.

But Duluth co-workers Maria Jacenko and Grace Knezevich said they were still warm and dry, still had a compass and are convinced they would eventually have walked out of the woods on their own if a helicopter search crew had not spotted them, waving from a ridge.

"I knew we'd make it out one way or another because we were headed east and would have hit the Gunflint [Trail]," Knezevich said

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