I hope they find this guy alive.

[The Iceman 6]

Ever watch that show in DSC - "I shouldn't be alive." Same scenario but in the African bush - plane crashes, 3 seriously wounded/critical condition. After 3 smoldering hot days, 2 guys leave the plane crash site. Find an elephant trail - they ended up walkking 60 miles but they were zig zagging miles (i.e, pretty much walking in circles). 2 guys came to fork in road, one guy goes let's go right. Soon enough they found a hunting lodge and called for help. Search crews were not even looking in their general area and would not of found them. If they went left they would of all been dead. If they didn't try to find help they would of all died too. Who knows? Anyway, great show AND it's really sad about the husband! Prayers are with the family.

Ice

[spence]

Now that the story is more clear it's pretty sad. Here's a DAD doing what we all think we would do in the same situation...

He's an unsung hero to fatherhood.

-spence

[Raven]

and this rant is not to rag on the guy : james kim

it's to rag on society...a bit...

because of the available technology out there....
ya know?.........

tom toms (navigation devices)
gps
cb radio's
n-star
google mapping feature {over head shots]
flair guns...i don't know.... survival stuff...
the fishing lodge just a mile away....-no signs again
but nobody knew....about it....

if that area is so dangerous....
as rescuer's discovered quickly...
there were no signs for that either....
LIKE -> danger: Enter at your own Risk

and now it's a detective hunt...
going on for the guy who cut
the lock off the gate in the first place...
that basically allowed james kim and family to drive in there...
just a gate....? with no signs!!!? thats even worse

hollywood will be all over this story and then some.
it'll become a movie...(with the news media calling him
super human and /or a hero.)

it's really a sad turn of events. an american tragedy.

[Mr.Mom]

In my eyes the most important thing we can do as a Dad (if you are one) is learn something from this.......

[sok]

Short and to the point....
One of the requirements of being able to aquire a drivers license should be the ability to read and understand a map.
Not a GPS but a paper road map.
Where you are are in relation to landmarks.
Tragedy?
Yes.
Could have been avoided easily?
Yes.

[RIJIMMY]

Originally Posted by sok

Short and to the point....
One of the requirements of being able to aquire a drivers license should be the ability to read and understand a map.
Not a GPS but a paper road map.
Where you are are in relation to landmarks.
Tragedy?
Yes.
Could have been avoided easily?
Yes.

They followed the map, they knew what road they were on but got lost on unmarkerd roads. I'm an expericened traveler and have gotten lost in well marker cities. When I moved to the west coast, I couldnt belevie people used chains on their tires and that roads were clsoed from the snow. Growing up in the northeast, I figured it was just a bunch of west coast wimps. Until.....I experienced my first winter in the Sierras. Those storms are MUCH worse than anything we get here. I can only imagine Oregon is the same thing.