When hiking in hundred-degree heat, Strayed made her water last until she reached a tank of water located on the trail. When she saw it, she drained the last of the supply she'd brought, then saw a sign on the tank: "no water." "I was terrified," she wrote. "I was miles from water on a hundred-and-something-degree day. I knew that this was the most serious situation I'd been in so far on the trail." Strayed made it to a reservoir five miles away, though she felt queasy and overheated as she walked. "I was laughing with joy as I staggered down the slope toward the little dirt beach that surrounded the reservoir," she wrote.
