XPost: alt.forestry, misc.rural
From: nntpmail@epix.net
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:04:32 +0000, Lobby Dosser wrote:
> "Joetheone" wrote:
>> "Lobby Dosser" wrote
<...>
>>> Especially when there is a Large Sign giving Clues to the uninitiated.
>>
>> To be fair, when you're slipping around in the snow in the dark on a
>> road you've never seen before and have no business being on, Larg signs
>> can be pretty easy to miss. Your headlights can miss them. As to the
>> gate, I'm pissed about them in most cases. They've gotten real extreme
>> about them over here (Idaho).
>
> The Large Sign is at the gate.
Do you have a cite that confirms there was a sign at the gate, warning
that it's a dead-end road (or something similar)? There are winter
warning signs along Bear Camp Rd, but the Kim's fatal error was going
onto the BLM logging road.
"To the left: Bear Camp Road headed farther up the mountains. To the
right: What looked like a more promising route, a wide paved expanse,
headed downhill. It was logging road 34-8-36, a wrong turn so notorious it
is the only road in this backcountry that the Bureau of Land Management
routinely gates in the winter to protect travelers.
The gate was open, BLM officials would later acknowledge, because the
bureau had failed to follow normal procedure and close it for the winter.
The Kims plunged ahead, snaking their way along a route that sent them
deeper and deeper into the forest. Up and down the roads they drove,
traveling 21 miles on the logging road as it corkscrewed into the forest."
"Confusion hampered search for Kims
Gaps in communication among agencies and leadership shortcomings proved
costly"
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/11
63313078330.xml&coll=7
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