CWilson: Welcome! I appreciate the insights you've shared with us here. I'm very impressed with http://www.kimtragedy.info/ -- that is a heck of a piece of work.

While it’s a relatively minor detail, I can’t find any mention of the black bears in any of the official reports after the incident. Seems sort of strange for that drama to first surface from Firecracker films. One report touched on that they honked the horn and yelled to hopefully attract rescuers to the area but no mention of honking the horn to scare the bears off from the area. If it was in one of the official reports please correct me.

link to the seeing the bears clip from 20/20

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/kati-kim-tells-heart-wrenching-story-family-ended/story?id=12884927

All I saw in the OSSA report was a mention of James Kim plucking berries out of bear scat. Didn't see anything about the bears outside the car playin' the theme from Deliverance on their banjos. That wasn't in the TV show? Well why not? I mean, if they were just going make stuff up anyway, might as well make it really good.

Is there a way to down load the 20/20 program onto a PC hard drive or DVD?

There were two things that bothered me from the time the Kims were finally found.

The first was, YES, the gate to the logging road was open, but in their entire lives in the U.S., had they EVER seen a public, town-to-town road with a gate across it?

The other was Kati Kim saying that once they were on the logging road, they had to stop several times to move large rocks out of the road so they could continue. (This was before memories dimmed and stories were polished.)

All the other wonderings and explanations pale beside that statement.

I have wandered all over the American West for years, exploring fairly remote ghost towns, and have driven over seriously rough roads at a crawl. I've driven up logging roads, fire roads, and long mountain and ranch driveways just out of curiosity. Sometimes I wasn't where I thought I was. Sometimes my vehicle just wasn't capable of going further, so I carefully turned around and went back the way I came in.

But NEVER, EVER, did I go up a road with deep potholes and large rocks in the road and think I was on any kind of inhabited town-to-inhabited town road.

Sue

Susan, at one point I thought I'd make a list of all the oddities, and decided it would drive me craz(ier) to go there. Then I told myself that maybe we're all pretty illogical if anyone spends enough time looking. Ain't that scary, though?!