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In 1995 someone did just that and he starved to death sitting in his car on the same road.

Last Feb a family in their RV wouldn't have been found for weeks if it weren't for two of the family members to leave the RV to get help all because SAR never thought they would have gone that far.

There are three cases where people were stranded in their vehicles either on the same road or near it and in all cases SAR never thought the people would have gone that far.

Does anyone else see the pattern here?

How is it possible that a car stuck on a road (not lost in a ditch or hit a tree) cannot be found in a timely manner? Surely they could have dispatched search crews on all of those roads with the proper equipment.

Locals have said - a lot of people make the wrong turn on that road it happens all the time.

The pilot who found the Kim's by their car knew they would be in that area and he found them.

The lodge owner found the car tracks and urged LE to search the area - they didn't. He knew they would be there.

They went 15 miles up that wrong road - I don't think anyone of the previously lost people had ever driven it up that far.

I said most of the time. This guy had not told anyone his route and people did not know he was missing. In this situation I would have walked out or died trying. Before leaving on a trip always tell a family member where you are going and your route. Also, check in from time to time.

The lodge owner found the car tracks and urged LE to search the area - they didn't. He knew they would be there.

I think everyone here is missing the point.

The lodge owner who saw car tracks was the only person mentioned in this thread who had a really solid lead and he blew it.

Bumping into the 911 operator on the street does not get it. What if he had never bumped into her?

He should have insisted that there would be a search crew at the gate in one hour or....

Options are to call other agencies, superiors, newspapers, TV.

I would have told her to fix her face and her hair because she was going to be on TV, where I would insist that she be accused of dereliction of duty, incompetence and anything else I could think of within the next couple of hours.

Get it through your heads. Some one is missing. Tracks in the snow. Tracks in the snow where the same thing has happened before. The lodge owner is as big a cluck as the 911 operator.

Once you get to this point, all of this other crap about whether snow obscured the road signs, etc., is immaterial.

Tracks leading down the road...Might as well have been a big neon sign saying VICTIMS WENT THIS WAY.

Both of them should have trouble sleeping at night.

Does anyone else see the pattern here?

The SAR teams had a 100% success rate in the last four years, with over eighty rescues. They were making the best decisions they could.