Oregon ping...
These types of roads should be completely closed during the winter.
I'm thankful for the volunteers and paid employees who put so much effort into rescue attempt. Sorry it wasn't perfect but this look back, with 20/20 hindsight, seeking perfection, and assigning blame is out of place IMHO.
Sad. I hope lessons were learned.
And by the way, the President is NOT responsible. And no, there was no "racism" involved. /s
Because ..If you DO SOMETHING, you can be CRITICIZED, and your climb up the career ladder will stop at that rung if you "Make a mistake".
Look at "Doers". Police Military. There are thousands just sitting out there, waiting to critique their every minute moves.
SO.. Mr. Kim went toes up because people in government, especially at the Administration level, have had previous lessons about doing something, and having it not turn out right.
Critics
The galleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. They make no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are the doers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The person who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He is the one who never tries anything. His is the brake on the wheel of progress. And yet it cannot be truly said he makes no mistakes, because his biggest mistake is the very fact that he tries nothing, does nothing, except criticize those who do things.
General David M. Shoup, 23rd Commandant, USMC
I've done some boneheaded things in my life, but I can't imagine taking my family up a road in the mountains during the winter with signs indicating it was impassable and having to move rocks out of the way to get through. Turning back was always an option. I'm sorry he died, but what the hell was he thinking?
So none of it is Kim's fault for utter stupidity?
You have to wonder how a person gets the job of search and rescue coordinator who "gets overwhelmed" by a...search and rescue mission! Why it wouldn't almost immediately occur to you to use heat-seeking search apparatus when looking for people in the wintry hinterlands is almost beyond comprehension.
Yeah, like taking some backwoods " shortcut " to begin with.
Brilliant !
Many mistakes here on the part of the Kims and the SAR organizers.
I've spent a lot of time in the outdoors, and I'd never go down an unknown Forest Service road at night, in bad weather, and without survival gear in the car. Especially with kids in the back seat.
The SAR problems begin with the lack of a central authority to collect and process all tips and information.
Well, I'm glad that he had his priorities straight....
Bookmarking for later read.
I have a niggling feeling this could have turned out better. Hindsight, you know.
That pretty much says it all...it's a shame a man paid with his life for Rubrecht's total incompetence.
It may have been the Kim's fault for getting lost in the first place, but they did just about everything else right once they realized their circumstances. It appears that those that survived are very lucky that average citizens took an interest in their plight.
Wow, an amazing article about the sad and inexcusable mistakes made by the people in charge of SAR. I hope this leads to changes in how they do things!
Oh, Brother. Here we go.
The 6 stages of any project:
1 Enthusiasm
2 Disillusionment
3 Panic
4 Search for the guilty
5 Punishment of the innocent
6 Reward of the non-participants
Don't depend on the government to save you. A Conservative tenant demonstrated throughout history.
Searchers failed to exploit vital clues in the hunt for the family of James Kim, including several crucial pieces of evidence that surfaced in the final hours of his life, when he was freezing, alone and lost in the woods.
If only we lived in PERFECT world like the libs and coms promise us.