Who knows this area? What kind of road in Oregon would not have had another car drive on it for over a week?? I mean Oregon is not Alaska...
no updates this morning?
More prayers........
I've been over that road and it's dangerous in the summer. Very high elevation, sheer drops, one lane, not maintained, no rails or marks. It took us at least two or three hours and we didn't see one other vehicle. In August there were potholes, plants growing out of the middle of the road, and trees touching the road. We had to get out and move branches.
I think the maps should say "Impassible in winter" or something like that.
OR is about 83% public land, so there are many areas with no people whatsoever.
Forrest Service Road.
Just had a live update on a local station from the area.
They have been searching all night and have a shift change as I type.
Good Day Oregon will keep us updated live.
Now that this has happened being the road was not labeled as a Forrest Service Road it may change how maps are printed up.
And there are parts of Oregon that are very much like Alaska.
Just up the road from me is old logging roads that the neighbor gals hike on and there are Elk up there along with smaller wild life.
We have roads the closest town that are still gravel.
Only locals go out on the forrest service roads because they know them and it is used to get out hunting and fishing.
We have lil roads that folks live on all over, just was over across town the other day to go pick up my flocked tree from the warehouse of the local tree farm and didn't know that area existed and I have lived here 20 yrs.
The mom of the two bambino's told her folks to announce on Larry King that she kept the kids alive by breast freeding them.
When we first visited here in '85, we went thru towns in Eastern Oregon that did not have electricity or telephones. It's still pretty much open range ranching over there, a million miles from Portland. It's the farthest one can be from an interstate in the contiguous 48, and we have three counties that individually are larger than New England.
I know people who have lived their entire lives here that would never go hunting without their GPS, it's that easy to get lost - happens several times a year.