My memory of the story doesn't really hold favorably to that choice. You always do tend to default to the more traditionally masculine roles. I don't mind being Gretel, though.

[Sherlock climbed up some fallen tree, easily walking up the knobby wall of dead wood with his long legs.]

I'll find out footprints in the mud, then. We'll be fine. Or we'll end up spending the night. One way or another, yes?