Woman missing in Nevada County for 12 days shares story of survival

It's been more than two months since Esmeralda Pineda went missing for 12 days in a rural part of Nevada County, near the middle fork of the Yuba River and Sweetland Creek in Nevada City. Still, memories and details of how she survived are hard for her to recall. "I kept on going in and out, like I felt like I was passing out,” Pineda said. “A lot of it is a blur. Like I'm trying to remember certain like moments in there and all I can remember is just that I kept on feeling like there was like animals following me." Pineda, who was 24 years old at the time, had gone camping with her dad and two friends at a mining claim camp – an area she said you have to repel down ropes to get to. But on the morning of Aug. 26, while the others were sleeping, she said she decided to leave.