Primitive Area — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

By the time Sara finds herself in the middle of the Idaho Primitive Area, she knows she made a huge mistake. Her decision clouded by the blush of new love, she agrees to accompany Travis on a weeklong hike. Sara, the city girl, in the woods, camping. And just when she thinks things can't possibly get worse, she discovers just how wrong things can get -- but in ways she never expected. Magical ways…

Part of Out of the Woods, an Uncollected Anthology.

“Rusch's short fiction is golden.”
-- Kansas City Star