Missing Hiker On Maui Found Alive

[MarkD]

You get trapped, that's one way to get lost or, more accurately, isolated.

Intuitively, if you are lost in Hawaii, you head downhill to the coast. Most areas have coastal roads. But on steep terrain, there are places where if you go down, you dead end, like a deep stream pool.

Maui above the Hana Highway is known to be rough terrain. Bushcraft 101: Never go down a hill you cannot climb back up.