The body of James Kim has been found according to the reports I read late today. They said they found an outer pair of pants he had been wearing which was a very bad sign. Looks like he also put down extra clothes he had as a signal in the snow. The report actually mentioned why finding the pants was bad. I'm surprised the paper found out the details on hyperthermia. Its always a bad idea to leave the car but I'm sure after the many days they had spent in the car, in a remote area with little chance of someone just happening on them, as well as being off their known route, he felt no choice but to try to walk out and try to save his family. Its a %^&*() shame that if he had just waited they would have been found. So $%^&*( close to rescue. But he did not know that. I'm kinda surprised he did not try to walk out sooner. Sounds like he tried to do everything right and he almost made it. At least his wife and kids did. Its a real shame. Later, Dan *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Friends, Let us take the sorrow of this tragedy and begin to be a part preventing future tragedies. I am a member of the local Search and Rescue Unit (SAR). Despite public appeals for more members we remain a small group. Too small to cover this vast wilderness we call home. If you check I bet your local SAR unit would have sing the same lament. It is time for us to be a part of the solution. As paddlers and wilderness voyagers we have skills that readily lend them selves to Search and Rescue operation. Wilderness savy Out door survival skills Physical fitness Ability to endure the elements Navigation skills Outdoor gear Ect. Let me strongly urge all those who love our sport to join your local SAR unit and take whatever training you need to be able to be an effective member of a SAR team. You well may save a life. Bob Carter Lt. Commander Petersburg Alaska Search and Rescue *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Bob Carter wrote: > Friends, Let us take the sorrow of this tragedy and begin to be a part > preventing future tragedies. I am a member of the local Search and > Rescue Unit (SAR). Despite public appeals for more members we remain a > small group. Too small to cover this vast wilderness we call home. If > you check I bet your local SAR unit would have sung the same lament. It > is time for us to be a part of the solution. As paddlers and wilderness > voyagers we have skills that readily lend them selves to Search and > Rescue operation. Good thoughts. Five-six years ago I was on the water maybe a couple miles from two sea kayakers in a double who got lost in some islands on the lower Columbia River. If I had had my VHF on, I'd have picked up on the SAR traffic, and could have been of at least some help in searching ... the county sheriff's boats not being able to explore shallow backwaters. [In the end, they "walked out" the next day ... incident was summarized in a Sea Kayaker magazine report back in early 2001, I believe.] -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 04:44:12PM -0900, Bob Carter wrote: > Let me strongly urge all those who love our sport to join your local SAR > unit and take whatever training you need to be able to be an effective > member of a SAR team. You well may save a life. 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. ---Rsk *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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