According to the article in the link I gave, their cell phone would not work in that area.

I understand how men think, but the parallel with boats is interesting. Even if his ship is sinking and supplies are gone and all looks hopeless, would it be appropriate for a captain to abandon his ship and his passengers/family to swim for some invisible shore in hopes of getting help? If it were my husband who wanted to do such a crazy thing, I would knock him unconscious and tie him up.

There was a sort of a parallel situation in a documentary that was on TV recently about a group that was climbing a mountain and got caught in a bad, unpredicted storm. After quite a bit of time had passed and things looked grim, one of the guys decided to climb down to get help. He ended up falling a couple thousand feet and breaking his legs. The original group that stayed together got rescued, and it was only then that the rescuers found out about the guy who had gone off alone. They finally found him, and he somehow survived (at least most of him), but it was a miracle.

What bothers me most about the Oregon incident is that this family apparently made more than one wrong turn, since they were supposedly on their way to a nice resort over on the Pacific coast. How do you end up going down an isolated, one-way logging road in a park? And it's not like there is anywhere to stop and ask for directions.

The other thing that bothers me is that apparently they had some way to make fire, since they burned their tires. So why couldn't they collect some wood and make MORE fire? And, of course, why didn't anybody see the smoke when they were burning tires? Maybe nobody was looking for them at that point? Maybe they used up all their matches getting the tires to burn?

I am sure there will be a documentary someday about this tragic event. Maybe the questions will be answered.

In the meantime, DON'T ABANDON SHIP.