" They were on a five-mile trail shaped like a lollipop..."
Fricken pansies couldn't even find their way back on a trail that is essentially a one way....
Sounds like they were the types who couldn't read a map let alone have any natural sense of direction....All they had to do was go as the crow flies and head back the way they came from trail or not!
They all had cell signals yet none of them could find North....brilliant