Posted on 11/30/2006 7:34:44 PM PST by rit
NET senior editor James Kim and his family are missing.
The 36-year-old Kim, his wife Kati, and daughters Penelope (4 years) and Sabine (7 months) left their home in San Francisco last week on a road trip to the Pacific Northwest. They were last seen on Saturday, November 25, in Seattle, according to the San Francisco Police Department, which has opened a missing persons' investigation. They were driving a 2005 silver Saab station wagon with California personalized plates of "DOESF."
Those with information about the Kim family's whereabouts are asked to contact the SFPD immediately--at 415-558-5508 during normal business hours and at 415-553-1071 after-hours. The Portland Police Department can be reached at 503-823-4000.
I mean Riddle to Galice...forget Glendale. I think that's on another road.
Oregon Highway 42 is an Oregon state highway which runs between U.S. Route 101 on the Oregon Coast, near Coos Bay, and Green, a few miles south of Roseburg on Interstate 5. It is known as the Coos Bay-Roseburg Highway. At Coquille, there is a split in the route, as Oregon Highway 42S heads southwest toward Bandon. The largest towns on the route are Winston, Coquille, Myrtle Point, and Green (which is actually unincorporated). Highway 42 serves as the southernmost link between the Oregon Coast and the Interstate 5 corridor.http://www.answers.com/topic/oregon-state-route-42
Glad there was a happy ending to their story!
If this family didn't know the terrain, they might, like me - an outsider who doesn't know Oregon - look at a map and say, hey, let's take these smaller roads. It's a shorter route and it's getting late.
Of course, the route I mentioned might be completely closed. I don't know. Just throwing something out there for consideration.
There are towns and streets around here (Bay Area) that I would avoid (for various reasons: traffic, dangerousness - either terrain or human) just from living here that a person living elsewhere would choose just from looking at a map.
I'm assuming they didn't know the terrain, which may not be true.
http://fortetwo.net/OR.html
THat must have given you a shiver to think about. Glad they got home.
Glad your daugher and husband got back OK.
Oh my, I didn't know Oregon had places like that,,I assumed it was flat and windy.
Current radar... http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/pacnorthwest.php
I was looking at a Mapquest map just now and my instincts, not knowing, would have been to leave I-5 at that Merlin cutoff and take Merlin Rd west or Monument Dr. south (whichever one comes out of the freeway) to Galice Rd. and then west to Galice and Agness.
Those are marked "Nf-23 and Nf-33, as well as Blm38-4-36" or something like that (from memory on the BLM one). That must mean those are National Forest roads and a BLM road.
Then, towards the coast, it's marked 595. It follows the Rogue River all along. Looks treacherous to me, just the way it meanders on the map!
However, it *is* the straightest shot from I-5 at Roseburg to Gold Beach.
Bless their hearts.
The coast and passes are very windy but there are lots of mountains with the Willamette Valley being flat and highly productive. East of the Cascades is high desert. The timber in the mountains makes Oregon one of the leading lumber producers in the nation along with Washington and northwestern Calif
I agree with you and truly hope they asked a local rather than going by a map.
NF means National Forest Service and I suspect these are nothing but glorified logging roads. You are right about the Rogue River Road. I have read recreation/fishing stories about this road and warning it is not recommended for larger recreation vehicles...
Let's hope they knew the area and weren't flying blind, like I would have been.
I don't know. It has been a whole week. Prayers continuing.
Very good! Do you have a link to the mapquest map where you were looking?
No, I had to use the grabby hand to move west from Galice along the roads. Then I centered on Galice and zoomed in, to look at the roads more closely. A lot of zooming in and out and grabby-handing, so not really linkable.
Just start with Roseburg and go down I-5 to Merlin - then over west to Galice.
At first I thought they might have turned off at Riddle, but now I see that road just makes a big circle. I think your Merlin to Galice to Agness is more likely.
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Regarding Bear Camp Road (also known as Merlin-Galice Road, Forest Service Road 33); This is NOT a highway and is not a maintained thoroughfare! Although on some maps it may appear to be a more direct route to Gold Beach, it's not a highway in any sense. It's a forest service road, closed in winter, and is mostly one-lane with no fog lines, no guard rails, no shoulder, and plenty of wash-outs, mudslides and potholes. Cell phones don't work in much of that area and after you pass the Agness turnoff, there is nothing but wilderness until you get to the other side of the mountain range at I-5. Flying In? Small aircraft can land at Gold Beach Airport. Otherwise, you'll need to land in Crescent City, Coos Bay or Medford.
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