A 28-year-old woman described how she survived for weeks outdoors in California’s eastern Sierra mountains by foraging for food and drinking melted snow after a solo camping trip went awry during harsh winter weather.

A Georgia woman who went missing for weeks in California's Sierra Nevada said that she was trapped by an avalanche and survived off wild leeks and snowmelt before she was found this week in a snowy cabin.

A lost hiker missing for three weeks in the California mountains miraculously survived when she stumbled upon an unlocked cabin that had been left open by its owner for this exact situation — and was rescued just in time to celebrate her 28th birthday.

Teams will “focus on intensively re-searching” the area where 79-year-old Margaret ‘Elaine’ McKinley was last seen.

When the Vermilion Valley Resort in California’s eastern Sierra shut down for the winter, the staff left cabin doors unlocked just in case a wayward hiker needed shelter during the frequent mountain snowstorms.

The remains of a missing hiker from Storrs were recently found in Japan more than two years after she went missing on a hike. On Friday, her family received confirmation that she was dead, her husband, Kirk Murad, said.

The body of missing hiker Hannah Moody has been found near the Arizona trail that she was last seen on. She was reported missing on May 21 and was discovered in the early afternoon of May 22.

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - Placer County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) deployed its Falcon 30 helicopter twice this week to rescue missing hikers in Mumford Bar and then Grouse Ridge, according to the agency’s Facebook post.