Search-and-rescue personnel gather in early morning fog to plan their search for San Francisco resident James Kim on Tuesday at  the Josephine County Search and Rescue headquarters in Merlin, Ore. Kim's wife and two children were rescued Monday. Kim, 35, remained the focus of a massive search effort Tuesday, three days after he left the family's Saab station wagon in search of help last Saturday morning. (AP Photo/ The San Francisco Chronicle, Carlos Avila Gonzalez)

Search crews with all-terrain vehicles head down Bear Camp Road in the Siskiyou National Forest near Galice, Ore., on Tuesday, near where the Kim family became stranded in snow. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Deputy Sheriffs Jason Denton, right, and David Prenkava prepare to continue the search for James Kim. (AP Photo//The San Francisco Chronicle, Carlos Avila Gonzalez)

Searcher Scott Robbins, from Bend, prepares to take his scent-sniffing dog, Cali, in search of James Kim on Bear Camp Road on Tuesday, near where the Kim family became stranded in snow. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Josephine County Sheriff's office Sgt. Joel Heller speaks with members of a search and rescue team headed down Bear Camp Road in the Siskiyou National Forest near Galice on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Don Ryan)

Kati Kim, who was stranded in Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest with her husband and two children, leaves Three Rivers Hospital in Grants Pass on Tuesday. Kim and her two daughters, Sabine and Penelope, were found in good health and rescued Monday by helicopter, but her husband, James Kim, who tried to hike out, is still missing. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Josephine County Sheriff Brian Anderson, right, is backed by Oregon State Police spokesman Gregg Hastings as they give an update in Merlin on Tuesday regarding the search for James Kim. (AP Photo)

This is a photo looking down on the Kim family's 2005 SAAB that became stuck in the snow. The snow has melted quite a bit since the family became stranded on Nov. 25.

The following four photographs were taken by Oregon State Police while accompanying a helicopter crew Tuesday during the search for James Kim. They depict the rough terrain in the area as well as show searchers being lowered into the Big Windy Creek area.