PING
Note to self--Do not get lost in Oregon.
Well there ya go. Don't be tellin' those gubmint peeples how to do thar jobs. They R perfessionals.
Still looking for someone else to blame are they?
None of the missteps on behalf of the authorities I've read amount to the grevious missteps taken by the Kim family, I'm sorry to say.
People venturing out into the wilderness need to understand that the world is not safety-engineered like an amusement park ride.
Gads, you would think this was Colorado.
Maybe she was carsick again.
It is ALWAYS someone else's fault!
It doesn't matter WHO does WHAT..... WHEN.......it is NOT the fault of the person doing it, it is for a fact, ANOTHER persons fault!!
The ME generation meets the NOT MY FAULT culture!
There's been a lot of reporting on the Edge Wireless aspect of the story, and most of it has refrained from leaping to the conclusions this one has. What Edge was able to determine is that they were likely to be somewhere in a wedge-shaped twenty mile long, by twenty mile wide area. Then, looking at topo maps of the area, they made some guesses regarding those locations where signals that reached that particular tower might have originated. One of those areas was Bear Creek Road, which was in the process of being searched by that time.
But... remember... the Kims were something like twenty miles down a logging road from Bear Creek.
It's easy, in hindsight, to say everyone should have dropped everything and pursued the Edge lead, but it still wouldn't have produced the Kims, and if they had been in some other area they would have been abandoned in order to chase a hunch.
This is all woulda-coulda-shoulda stuff, it helps reporters fill their copy quota, but it provides no information that would be useful to see that the next incident is more successful than this one was.
Some guy kept complaining, er, posting rants about it for some annoying and forgotten reason.
Maybe even about the sheriff.
Maybe it was in WA State, instead. Any way, it happened enough to warrant the plonk.