Has anyone asked the family why they had ventured off the main Highway in the first place?
Also the next question would by why didn't the man walk back on the road they came in on. It sounds like he started walking through the forest.
It's pretty clear from listening to the posts of people who have traveled that road. It is ill marked and not maintained. The main road looks no better than the turns-offs so you think you're on the main road and you're on one of literally hundreds of fire roads and logging roads which dead end.
Everyone local says the road is extremely hazardous in winter, yet the chamber of commerce touts the road as being "scenic" without saying it is not traversable in bad weather.
unless you are used to driving the back, back roads of this country, people don't have a clue what kind of trouble you can run into....
this could have happened to probably 90% of our population.....
God bless them all and I hope he is found alive......
save the cheerleader....save the world....and all that.....