Amber VanHecke revised what happened, when she was stranded in a remote part of Arizona for five days.

Amber VanHecke’s solo trip to the Grand Canyon got her stranded in a remote part of Arizona and found comfort in a family of prairie dogs. She said that the animals became comfortable enough that the prairie dogs ate out of the palm of her hand.

“You have to entertain yourself in the dead hours,” VanHecke said. “I honked my horn to make [coyotes] leave the prairie dogs alone.”

The 24-year-old Denton, was stranded for five days, she said that she owes her survival to skill that she learned as a Girl Scout in Plano.

She luckily had extra water and food, including almonds, pumpkin seeds, Goldfish and dried fruit — that could’ve lasted her 18 days.

VanHecke said that she ate only enough to stop hunger pangs and sat Ramen noodles on her dashboard to cook in the sun.

"I had prepared for it, and I just didn't expect it to happen to me, and you never do I guess," VanHecke said.

The University of North Texas student was traveling in the Havasupai Reservation, when her car ran out of gas on March 12, the Arizona Department of Public Safety said. Google Maps sent her down a road that did not exist.

Noticing planes would occasionally fly overhead, on the second day she arranged rocks to spell “HELP” near her car.

One day she was in her car sheltering from the sun when she heard a truck passing. She scrambled out of her car shoeless.

"Oh my God, people!" she thought.

She tried to get their attention, but the truck continued. She returned to her car nauseated from adrenaline and hunger.

She began to hike towards east in search of signals in her phone, after she "got tired of waiting to be rescued," she wrote in a Facebook post. She estimated that she walked 11 miles Friday before being able to call 911 — a call that lasted just 49 seconds — and had nearly made it back to her vehicle when she was found. The Arizona emergency service sent a search team for her.

During the air search, a helicopter crew noticed a glare near a road — VanHecke's vehicle and her help sign in rocks.

The search team found the vehicle empty, but she had left a note explaining where she was headed.

"So I spent five days constructing various signs to help someone find me," she wrote, adding that she also put a barricade in the road after a truck drove past without seeing her.

Rescuers said VanHecke was smart, well-prepared and "did everything right."

"She had food and water in her vehicle for the trip," paramedic Edgar Bissonette said. "Even though she was down to her last bit of water, it kept her going. When she left the vehicle, she left notes so we knew where to find her."

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