Road Kims took was unlocked by vandal, officials say

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/08/missing.family.ap/index.html

GRANTS PASS, Oregon (AP) -- The remote logging road that James Kim and his
family drove down before getting stranded deep in the Rogue River Canyon is
normally blocked by a locked metal gate, but it was open the night they got
lost because a vandal had cut the lock, authorities said Friday.

The Kims were stranded more than a week with little food after driving 15
miles past the gate. James Kim was later found dead of exposure after
setting out on foot for help. Kati Kim and their daughters, Penelope, 4, and
Sabine, 7 months, were airlifted out.

"It's locked during winter so people don't mistakenly go down that road."
said Patty Burel, spokeswoman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Medford
District and the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. (
<javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/us/2006/12/07/oregon.kim.autopsy.press.c
onf.kptv','2006/12/14');> Watch Kim's heartbreaking journey
<javascript:cnnVideo('play','javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/us/2006/12/0
7/oregon.kim.autopsy.press.conf.kptv','2006/12/14');','2006/12/08');> Video)

The gate was locked November 1, after the end of deer hunting season, but
later it was cut, and searchers looking for the Kims discovered the gate was
open, Burel said. An investigation is under way to find out who cut the
lock.

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