No cell phone ?
I don't think they could get a signal. This story is so sad and just a shame. But people now may be more aware of what to expect when traveling in these areas. Hopefully they will be better prepared or better yet stay on main routes. I can not even begin to imagine what it must have been like for them to be stranded for so many days and my prayers go out to the Kim family.
We're talking some serious remote and rugged territory here. Even trying to use a cell on I5, the Interstate Highway, the phone cuts in and out.
Once you're more than 15 miles from the highway or so, you might as well be on Mars.
I just don't understand why he didn't do everything possible to keep the fire going. Green pine wood thrown on a fire makes one heck of alot of smoke.
It is sad, and my heart goes out to the family, but it proves if you are going to do any kind of distance travelling in the Western US, you need to be prepared.