More than 15 years ago, a salesman by the name of Dewitt Finley changed his plans without telling anyone and turned off onto Bear Camp Rd. in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon. Yes, the same Bear Camp Rd. that the Kim family got stranded on in 2006.

Finley got stuck in the snow and apparently didn't make any attempt to hike out. He died of starvation after two months of sitting there in his truck/camper. Law enforcement said at the time that where he was stuck had the deepest snow; had he backtracked on foot, he might have made it out. His ordeal was documented in a series of letters he wrote to his wife, with the mention that his life was in God's hands, and if God wanted him found, he would be found. I guess he forgot that God gave him a brain and probably expected him to use it. The kicker in this particular incident was that either the Forest Service or county sheriff officers had locked the gates on each end of the road separately, WITHOUT checking the road to see if anyone was on it, very soon after Finley entered the area.

OTOH, here's a young man who got stuck in snow five years ago and lived to tell the tale: Man survives two weeks trapped in snow-covered car!

Sue