James Kim's Body Found!

All of Southern Oregon mourns today the death of James Kim the California tourist who along with his wife and two children took a "short cut" Thanksgiving Weekend through the mountains of Southern Oregon from I-5 near Grants Pass Oregon to Gold Beach Oregon on the Oregon coast and got his car stuck in a snow drift on a remote forest service road. His wife and children stayed with the car and were found safe two days ago. James Kim who left his family to try and find help was found dead in a remote canyon. All of our sympathy is with the Kim family, friends and coworkers.

Thanks to all the search and rescue folks for all they have done. It's easy to forget in this peaceful corner of the world that nature can be beautiful but also can be dangerous.

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain. Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Bolt from the Blue, 1994