GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A contestant in a YouTube outdoor survival challenge was rescued from a forest in northern Michigan after she went missing for nearly 18 hours in the wilderness, officials say.

The 36-year-old woman from California left the contest’s designated base camp in Pigeon River State Forest, northeast of Gaylord, around 5 p.m. Friday to search for water. But she did not return, so contest hosts began to search for her.

Twelve hours later, around 5 a.m. Saturday, they called 911. Deputies with the Otsego County Sheriff's Office, Michigan State Police troopers, several other local law enforcement agencies and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources worked together to look for her in woods that were “still damaged from the ice storm” that devastated much of norther

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