The woman who said she was raped on a Riverdale trail in the fall of 2007 took the stand today to testify against the accused, Douglas Hockley.

She was calm and straightforward as she gave her testimony to the Yukon Supreme Court via closed-circuit video, while Hockley watched from the courtroom.

The 39-year-old woman, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, had been drinking with her partner and a few friends on the night in question.

The group ran out of beer at about 11:30 p.m., and the men wanted more.

Everyone had been drinking, so she offered to walk downtown to get off-sales products, she told the court, noting that she and her partner wouldn't let their friend drive.

On her way downtown, she stopped at a house on Nisutlin Drive, where she had arranged to pick up a backpack full of games which a girlfriend had left behind for her, then continued on.

She said she had been taking her time, and realized at a certain point that she probably wasn't going to make it downtown before midnight, when the beer stores close.

She turned around and headed back down Nisutlin. At the intersection with Alsek Road, she turned into one of the trails: a shortcut to her house.

About 10 metres into the trail, she encountered a man. He was about five feet six inches tall, clean-shaven with light-coloured hair, she said, wearing a baseball cap, a black hoodie and a carpenter's jacket.

The woman had been crying to herself as she walked, thinking about a friend who had moved back to Alberta, she explained.

"This character came up and asked if I was all right,” she told the court.

She stopped and said she was fine.

He offered her a cigarette; she smoked one of her own.

Then he pulled out a "crack can” – a beer can which has been converted to use as a crack pipe – and offered her a hit of rock cocaine.

The woman said she occasionally used cocaine, but didn't want any that night because "if you have a cocaine hit, that's all you're thinking about. I had a nice beer buzz happening and I didn't want anything else.”

Once the man had smoked some of the drug, "he got kinda flinchy,” the woman said.

She turned away to leave, then felt a shove from behind. She fell forward, and was held down from behind, her body pushed flat against the rough ground. She felt her pants being pulled down, and then anal penetration.

"I was screaming something,” she told the court. "He was telling me to shut up ... and hitting the left side of my face ... I'm assuming with his fist because it hurt.”

She said she fought, but it didn't make any difference: "I'm quite small,” she said.

She does not remember how long it went on, she told the court.

"Then it just stopped and he headed down the trail in the direction I had come from.”

She remembered standing up, still screaming at the man's back as he walked quickly away.

She ran to the nearest house looking for help.

At the second door she tried, an older woman answered, took the younger woman inside, called 911 and comforted her as they waited for the police.

Evidence collected from the victim and the scene includes the woman's down-filled jacket, which is stained with drips and splatters of blood down the front and the left arm; her track pants, scuffed with dirt at the knees; and a burnt, crumpled beer can, the side of which is coated with ash residue.

The trial is scheduled to run for the rest of the week.

Justice Ron Veale is presiding.