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A Facebook page previously named “Help Us Find Ava Zechiel” is now called “Ava Zechiel Has Been Found” after a 16-year-old girl from D.C. who went missing on a school trip to Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest was found yesterday after six days of searching.

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According to a staff member at Freedom Mountain Academy, where she is a student, “Zechiel ran away after refusing to hike any farther,” The Post reported.

The specialty boarding school, located in Mountain City, Tennessee, integrates farm work and wilderness training into its curriculum. Hiking is a typical activity for students. In a Facebook post about Zechiel’s recovery, the school said, “With EXTREME gratitude and full hearts, we are rejoicing the reunion of Ava with her parents!”

Zechiel vanished at about 2:30 p.m. on November 11, according to the Post. This led to ground and air searches by the local sheriff department and the FBI. At one point, crews 35-40 people with K-9s participated in the search of a “very rugged, rough and heavily wooded” area, WBIR reported.

She was finally found six days later, “somewhere in the woods around lunchtime,” Zechiel’s father, who provided no further details about his daughter’s disappearance, told The Post.

Friends and family members who set up the Facebook page are asking supporters to show gratitude to the Black Diamond Search and Rescue Council by making a donation.