User blog comment:Neowitch/If they had accepted.../@comment-4311127-20111210151452/@comment-4311127-20111210164602

That doesn't make a difference since Luffy and Sanji only carried Nami up the mountain so Kureha could heal her, so if Crocus was on board they wouldn't even have to go up the mountain just stay in one village and wait for healing to finish.