Re: [Paddlewise] Seeing Red

I did that drive this summer.... and I suspect James Kim may have taken that 
route due to a gps suggesting it...   I did it knowing full well what it was 
going to be like very shortly into it.... but being summer, what the heck.

I suspect that Mr. Kim was not aware of the hazzards of the weather that he 
was getting into..... and although he was likely a very bright fellow, that 
tragedy is a reminder that the outdoors are unforgiving.  Surviving an 
unexpected outdoors mishapd is not so much based on intelligence, as on a 
wealth of experience... yours and that of others you can learn from.

It was a very sad story indeed.... and I did think of them this summer as I 
did that drive.

Mike Orchard


> From: "Bradford R. Crain" <crainb_at_pdx.edu>
>    I still anguish over the fate of James Kim, who attempted to drive with
> his family
>    from I-5 to the southern Oregon coast in the middle of winter over a
> seldom used
>    and substandard Bear Camp road through the mountains. Had they taken a
> more
>    traveled route, and had they carried sufficient supplies with them,
> James Kim
>    would not have paid the ultimate price. I carry a down sleeping bag and
> snow
>    shovel in my vehicle the year round, even on kayak trips. Even that may
> not
>    guarantee survival.
>
>    Brad
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