Searchers began looking Sunday for a Salt Lake City woman who disappeared Saturday afternoon while hiking near Kings Peak, which is the highest mountain in Utah.

Detective Ron Bridge, a spokesman for the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, said 26-year-old Sarah Fixsen was found near Milk Lake Sunday evening.

“We searched all day and right as we were getting ready to complete for the night and get some rest, the helicopter actually located her in Duchesne County. He was able to land, pick her up and reunited her with friends and family,” Bridge said in a telephone interview. “Apparently she hunkered down overnight and then stayed in the general vicinity where she became lost. When she finally saw the helicopter she was able to be seen by it by stepping into an opening.”

Fixsen wasn’t prepared with supplies to spend a chilly night in the Uinta Mountains, Bridge explained.

“But she was dressed warm enough to obviously survive,” Bridge said. “She didn’t have any food or water but she wasn’t dehydrated.”

She was found in good condition.

“Her complaint was that her feet were tired,” Bridge said.

Fixsen became separated from her group while hiking near the Henrys Fork trailhead Saturday at about 2 p.m., he said.

“The story that I’ve received was that she was running a little bit behind everybody because she just wasn’t quite able to keep up,” Bridge said. “She figured if she stayed on the trail she would eventually come back with her people.”

The woman was reported missing to the Sheriff’s Office Sunday at about 1:30 a.m.

More than 20 people from the Summit County Sheriff’s Office, Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office and Utah Department of Public Safety searched for the lost woman on Sunday.

“We deployed search and rescue in the early morning hours before sunrise. We also had the DPS helicopter come up before the sun came up,” Bridge said. “They set up command and began making strategic plans to begin the search as soon as daylight came We both had people on foot as well as the helicopter in the air.”

Kings Peak is in Duchesne County. But many hikers begin their ascent of the mountain at the Henrys Fork Trailhead, which is in Summit County.

“That is where people go missing from,” Bridge said.

The remote area presents a challenge for search teams because Kings Peak is a popular hiking spot for people from all walks of life.

“It is a heavily frequented area of our county,” Bridge said. “Being prepared is obviously what we advocate regularly because you can get into a predicament that you weren’t expecting, but if you’re prepared then you can survive.”