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No you're wrong. I live here where they were stranded. A Subaru wouldn't have helped a bit. The SEARCHERS couldn't reach them by land where they were stranded. The lock wasn't cut by a rancher rounding up strays as an earlier poster guessed. The terrain is too rugged for that. It is sad that someone cut the lock. The bare truth of the matter is that this family rolled by FOUR SIGNS ( I've seem them, they're hard to miss) that told them the road was not going to be passable in the vehicle they were in. They kept going. The fact that the man made a heroic effort after he endangered his family is I'm sure a comfort to them. I would rather have a cautious living husband than a dead hero. Very, very bad decisions were made that ended with this tragedy. Those of us in the area would never try to traverse that road this time of the year. It basically narrows to a small two lane gravel track, quite a ways before the area where they were stranded. Only the naive or foolish would attempt it in winter, in the dark.