A woman who was lost for three days in the remote mountains of central Idaho still had another 15 miles to walk, without shoes, to reach a highway — if some mountain bikers hadn’t found her.

One of the cyclists, Shelton Robinson of Pocatello, Idaho, said it was random lucky chance that he and his two companions happened across Heather Wayment, 46, at about 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 18.

They were in a remote part of the Sawtooth Mountains. Wayment was roughly 17 miles away from her vehicle, at a trailhead in the Prairie Creek area north of Ketchum, Idaho.

She’d last been seen on Sept. 16, and was reported missing the next day, according to the Blaine County, Idaho, Sheriff’s Office.

Robinson and his companions, brothers Tommy and Vinton Gwinn, were on their way out after a mountain biking and

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