Tiffany Slaton, a Georgia woman who went missing for weeks while hiking in California's Sierra Nevada, was found alive inside a cabin that was inaccessible to vehicles due to the snowpack.

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 hars

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.