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It appears that these two women were able to get out of their vehicle and move around. Unknown why they didn't try hiking/walking out, or any mention of them building a fire for warmth, signaling, etc.,

Only eight boxes of Girl Scout cookies and a bag of cheese puffs, for two people, lasting two weeks ....

Missing sisters survived for TWO weeks on Girls Scout cookies, cheese puffs and melted snow after their SUV got stuck on remote snow-bound road


Leslie Roy, 52, and Lee Wright, 56, had been visiting relatives in Michigan when on April 11 their Ford Explorer got trapped in snow on remote road
SUV lost power and they had no cell phone service to call for help
Roy and Wright wore layers of clothes to stay warm as overnight temperatures fell to the 20s
Survived by rationing eight boxes of Girl Scout cookies, a bag of cheese puffs and melted snow
Helicopter pilot noticed a reflection off the Ford Explorer Friday and rescued the trapped women


Two sisters from Oklahoma and Nebraska missing for nearly two weeks in Michigan survived on Girl Scout cookies while stuck in their snow-trapped SUV until state police discovered them Friday near Lake Superior in a remote part of the Upper Peninsula.

A pilot noticed a reflection off the Ford Explorer and landed the police helicopter on shore, finally ending the women's unexpected wilderness adventure. Leslie Roy, 52, and Lee Marie Wright, 56, were examined at a hospital and released.

‘It was sheer joy,’ Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker told The Associated Press, describing their reaction to the rescue. ‘It was almost disbelief that it was finally happening.’

Roy, of Valley, Nebraska, and Wright of Depew, Oklahoma, got stuck about three miles from Crisp Point Lighthouse in Luce County in the Upper Peninsula. They had been visiting relatives in Ishpeming, in another part of the peninsula, and were planning to head south April 11.

They had a reservation at a hotel in Mackinaw City but never showed up. Instead, they were entombed in snow on a remote used road with eight boxes of Girl Scout cookies purchased from relatives and a bag of cheese puffs, Marker said.

‘They thought the road was plowed but it wasn't,’ he said.

There is no cellphone service in the area. The car eventually lost power, too. Roy and Wright wore layers of clothes to stay warm as overnight temperatures fell to the 20s, and they also turned snow into water.

‘They heard crunching in the woods at night,’ Marker said. ‘They thought it was rescuers but no one came. Then they thought it was bears.’

When the search began, police said the women had told others about possibly visiting waterfalls and casinos on their way to the Lower Peninsula.

Their Ford Explorer was spotted from a helicopter around 2.30pm, police said. About 25 minutes later, police officers who were called to the scene reached the car on foot.

'When we pulled up, they grabbed their purses and Lee Wright clutched onto her Bible and both women were very happy,' Marker told MLive.com. 'It was hugs all around.'

The women were transported to Helen Newberry Joy Hospital to be checked by doctors.

A photo of Roy and Wright showed them eating food and keeping warm in state police coats after the rescue.

‘They're walking. ... They're alive and well, just a little weak from being stuck for a couple weeks,’ said Sgt. Brent Rosten, of the Michigan State Police.

The women's relatives were ecstatic to receive the good news Friday.

'My mom and Aunt Leslie have been found, and they are alive and well, thank God!' Wright's daughter, Stacy Calvin-Lowe, wrote on Facebook Friday. 'Everyone that help us search, everyone that prayed, everyone that supported us, from the depths of my heart, thank you!

'I am so thankful, and overwhelmed with joy, I can't stop crying! I can't wait to see my momma, I can't wait to tell her I love her!! I am incredibly happy!'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ocial-facebook

Here's another link of the same incident, where it says that they were not trapped in their vehicle and were able to get and walk around.

LUCE COUNTY, MI -- Two sisters who were missing for nearly two weeks in a remote area of the Upper Peninsula survived on Girl Scout Cookies and cheese puffs.

Lee Wright, 56, and Leslie Roy, 52, were weak but otherwise seemed to be in good condition when a state police helicopter rescued them Friday from a two-track road in northern Luce County, where their Ford Explorer became stuck in deep snow on April 11. The women stayed with the vehicle, which had died earlier this week.

The out-of-state residents relied on eight boxes of Girl Scout Cookies and cheese puffs for food, as well as snow for water.

"It is unbelievably remarkable," said Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Marker, who was one of four rescuers aboard the helicopter. "They had multiple layers of clothes on and they were rationing their food."

Marker said the helicopter had been searching in the area for about two and a half hours when a sergeant spotted a glimmer in the woods about 2:20 p.m. Friday. That glimmer turned out to be the SUV's windshield.

"We circled and we could see the vehicle, and then they came out of their vehicle waving their arms," Marker said.

Wright, from Oklahoma, and Roy, from Nebraska, were traveling in the Upper Peninsula and had visited family in Ishpeming. They were last seen by relatives April 10. The sisters had planned to stay at a Mackinaw City hotel the following day but never arrived.

Their SUV got stuck in snow along Crisp Point Road, about three miles west of Crisp Point Lighthouse on Lake Superior. The road, just wide enough for one vehicle, was impassable, Marker said. Trees line the road.

The women said they tried to call 911 several times but didn't have cell phone service.

Friday's rescue came after the second day of searching by helicopter, Marker said. One of the women earlier had sent a Facebook message to a relative inquiring about Tahquamenon Falls, so police homed in on the area.

"Basically there was some mention on a possibility of one of the things they wanted to visit was the Tahquamenon Falls," Marker said.

Once they landed the helicopter on a beach, police hiked for about 25 minutes to reach Wright and Roy in the woods.

"When we pulled up, they grabbed their purses and Lee Wright clutched onto her Bible and both women were very happy," Marker said. "It was hugs all around."

After expressing their relief, the women mentioned that a bear had visited their vehicle two nights in a row.

"They knew it wasn't rescuers coming for them because rescuers would have flashlights," Marker said the women told police.

Police called for backup assistance so the women wouldn't have to hike out the woods. Prior to help arriving, a Grand Rapids family driving four wheelers gave them a ride to the helicopter.

The sisters reunited with family at Luce County Airport and were transported to Helen Newberry Joy Hospital in Newberry for precautionary medical evaluations and treatment.

"The family's very relieved," Marker said.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapi...ve_2_week.html

Again .... What's in your vehicle?