Re: [Paddlewise] James Kim

Rich Kulawiec wrote:

>Y'know, this was the shove I needed to do that.  I've paddled most
>of the rivers and creeks around here, I've hiked most of the trails
>in all seasons and all kinds of weather, I have the gear, and I would
>rather not be sitting here watching news updates about someone lost
>when I could be out trying to find them.
>
>I'm gonna find the local folks in the morning.
>  
>

Good for you Rich.  From what I observed following the news, there were 
lots of like-minded folks from the area as well as outside involved in 
the search.  All kinds of skills were used.  Even the hi-tech industry 
was involved in the search for the Kim family with the use of computers 
(a cell phone ping helped searchers to locate the general area of travel):

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2006/12/05/17164.aspx

 From the article:

 >>
The fact that anyone was rescued at all could well be due to the 
cell-phone angle: When Eric Fuqua, an engineer at Oregon-based Edge 
Wireless <http://www.edgewireless.com/news/index.html> reviewed the 
company's records, he found that a "ping" from the Kims' cell phone had 
been detected at a signal tower near Glendale in southern Oregon at 1:30 
a.m. PT Nov. 26. That particular tower could even determine the westerly 
region from which the signal came.

"We were actually able to identify that piece of the pie," Donnie 
Castleman, the president and chief executive officer of Edge Wireless, 
told me today.

The clue wasn't conclusive: The engineers could only sketch out an area 
roughly 26 miles on a side in Oregon's rugged Josephine County. A 
computer model helped narrow down the area further, based on the roads 
and terrain. All that helped concentrate the search - and eventually, a 
helicopter pilot spotted Kati Kim unfurling an umbrella 
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16052911/> as a distress signal.
<<

Help comes from many places and from many people.  People are wonderful 
like that :-). 

Jackie
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