She went hiking in the woods and met the love of her life Sarah was resting in her hammock, flask of whiskey in hand, surveying the canopy of trees ahead and enjoying the peace and quiet. It was late May 2015 and Sarah was spending the long Memorial Day weekend hiking a New York-based section of the Appalachian Trail, the scenic hike that winds across the Eastern United States. In 2015, Sarah had just turned 30. She loved her job, her friends and her life in Long Island, New York, but she always felt the pull of the woods. She'd spend weekends hiking upstate, relishing the fresh air and the quiet. "I was there as much as possible, because the older that I got, the more I missed being near the trails in the woods where I had grown up," Sarah tells CNN Travel. "I grew up in Maine, which is where the Appalachian Trail starts -- or ends -- and so I was leading trips for a summer camp on sections of the Appalachian Trail before I even graduated high school." 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But she trusted him right away. He seemed friendly. And Sarah thought he was attractive -- smiling, wearing a backwards baseball cap. "But I'm trying to play it cool, because I'm literally a hot mess at this point," Sarah recalls. "Do you know where I can find water?" asked the stranger. Sarah had no idea. "There's a lake maybe half a mile up the yellow trail," she offered, then gestured to her flask. "But I have some whiskey if you want some?" The stranger laughed, but declined the offer. He pulled out his paper map and showed it to Sarah -- on his map, at almost exactly where she'd set up her hammock, was a small "W" for water. Sarah pulled out her phone to compare this to the paper and PDF maps she'd been using all weekend. There was no such marking on any of her maps, and no sign of water nearby. While they compared maps, Sarah and the stranger introduced themselves. He was Travis King, then in his mid-30s and based in Philadelphia. He was spending weekends, like Sarah, escaping his city, hiking the Appalachian Trail in sections. After several minutes of back and forth, Travis headed off, still on a quest to find a spring or river. Sarah busied herself preparing dinner. Then she climbed back into her hammock to watch the sun set. As dusk descended, she lit her campfire, and found herself thinking again about Travis. "Man, Travis seemed cool. Maybe he'll come back," she thought. Sure enough, about an hour or so later Travis reappeared, and struck up conversation with Sarah again. "We just talked for a half hour, talking about some of our other travels. He'd ridden a bike through Belgium, that was the story he was telling me. And I was telling him that I had been to South America," recalls Sarah. The topic of their diverging maps came up again. As Sarah was showing her PDF version to Travis once again, she realized this was the perfect excuse to ask for his cell phone number. "Give me your number and I'll text you the map that I use," she said, trying to sound as casual as possible. Travis agreed. There was no cell phone service in the woods, but Sarah promised to text Travis the map the following day, when she regained reception. The two hikers said their goodbyes, Travis heading off in another direction, and Sarah settling down for the night. The wrong number The next day, Sarah put off leaving the woods for as long as possible. She was in no hurry to get back to Long Island and wanted to enjoy her last few hours immersed in nature. But when she eventually returned to her car and to her phone signal, Sarah sent Travis a message, attaching the map, as promised, and wishing him all the best for the rest of his hike. Then she drove back home. That evening, Sarah unpacked and tried to avoid checking her phone. But whenever she looked, there was no response from Travis. The next day she woke up, went to work, came home and there was still no response. Late that evening, Sarah relented and sent another text, figuring maybe the first hadn't got through. This time, Sarah got a response, but it wasn't the one she was expecting: "My name is Kathy, I don't know who you're looking for, but please stop texting me." Sarah screenshotted the reply, and sent it to several friends. She'd already told them about Travis, but none of her friends thought it was a good idea for Sarah to keep in touch with him. "People always assume that only nut jobs are out in the woods. So everybody's like, 'Why do you care? Why are you upset that he's not texting you back?" Sarah recalls. As far as Sarah's friends were concerned, the message from Kathy sealed the deal. "All my friends were like, 'Sarah, I bet he's married. I bet he gave you his wife's number, and that's why she's mad. Or he gave you a fake number on purpose.'" But Sarah felt certain Travis was sincere. And that they were meant to meet again. "Most of the time you meet people traveling and that's that -- but for whatever reason, Travis just was different," she says. Meanwhile, Travis was back in Philadelphia, thinking about Sarah, and wondering why she hadn't messaged him. "I was kind of bummed because I was like, 'Oh, man, she was super interesting. I know she has my number and it's been a couple of days and I haven't gotten this map, I haven't heard from her. I haven't heard from this person that I would like to talk to some more, because she was super cool," he tells CNN Travel. Travis hadn't taken down Sarah's details, so there was nothing he could do. He didn't know her full name, or any identifying information that could help him find her on social media. Sarah was also stumped. "I didn't know his last name. All I knew was the general area where he grew up, where he lived now, he enjoyed hiking, he was in his mid-30s," she recalls. The days rolled on. Later that week, Sarah was out at a bar with a friend, relaying the story for what felt like the hundredth time. The friend asked to see the number, and examined Sarah's phone for a moment. "I don't like that six in the middle," she said. "Change that six to a five." Figuring she had nothing to lose, Sarah did just that. Then she typed out a quick hello, and hit send. Within seconds, the three dots appeared indicating someone was writing a response. Then three words popped up on the screen: "Who is this?" "Sarah from the woods?" wrote Sarah, typing furiously. She'd meant to include an exclamation mark, but in her excitement, the question mark slipped in instead. "Where's the map you were going to send me?" came the reply. Sarah turned to her friend, gobsmacked. She waved the phone excitedly. "It's him! It's him!" she said.