12/02/2006

Associated Press

Searchers on snow machines poked into byways along Oregon's Coast Range looking for a San Francisco family missing a week.

"So far, nothing positive to report," Oregon State Police Lt. Gregg Hastings said Saturday.

He said searchers in Curry County focused Friday on a twisty mountain road that leads to Gold Beach, where James and Kati Kim and their two children had reservations at a lodge but never arrived.

The road shows up in computer-generated maps showing routes to the coast, Hastings said.

But, he said, there's no evidence the Kims actually took the route, and search and rescue teams found no trace of them.

The family was last reported seen Nov. 25 when they saw friends in Portland and then headed toward home after a holiday trip to the Pacific Northwest.

Helicopters, including one commissioned by the Kims' family, failed to turn up any evidence of the family, Hastings said.