an update to your thread...........looks like no 'vandals' involved.
Gate to road Kims used never locked, BLM says
Federal workers failed to lock the gate that was supposed to block the logging road that led James Kim to his death last week -- a different story than has been told since his death and his family's rescue.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management was supposed to lock the gate to the spur road, known only as 34-8-36, on Nov. 1. The winter gate is meant to stop people from turning off Bear Camp Road, which cuts through the rugged Siskiyou National Forest to the Oregon Coast.
http://www.oregonlive.com/newslogs/..._12.html#215338Thats really a shame then. I hope people will think more clearly when they are traveling in areas they aren't familiar with. I hope they will pack their car with items that will help them survive something like what happened to the Kim family. It is better to be safe then sorry. It seems so hard to believe that in this day and age something like this could even happen, 9 days stranded. Thank God the wife and 2 girls were saved. Prayers for the Kims.