Officials said she had few supplies and little food but was "resourceful" and wanted "solitude." A survival expert told Insider how the woman might've been able to survive the extreme conditions. In November, when Forest Service officials in Utah were preparing to close up parts of the Spanish Fork Canyon for the winter, they discovered a seemingly abandoned car in a campground parking lot. A search-and-rescue crew set out to look for the woman the car belonged to but came up dry. Detectives spent months trying, without success, to find and contact her family. Five and a half months passed without any sign of her.