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army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus
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I am pissed. Going to the bus was a short term goal of mine. I made it to the trail head this past winter but decided against going to Alaska this past summer break because of the covid shit. I feel a piece of me has died
June 18, 2020

An Army National Guard heavy-lift helicopter has removed the old Fairbanks city bus from the spot near Denali National Park where it once housed Christopher McCandless, the subject of the popular nonfiction book “Into the Wild.”
Photos posted to Facebook on Thursday show a twin-bladed Chinook helicopter carrying the bus away from the remote site it occupied near the Teklanika River, where it attracted numerous tourists who had to be rescued after the book’s publication.

The Alaska departments of transportation, natural resources and military and veterans’ affairs were all involved in the operation, which came at the request of the Denali Borough, said Mayor Clay Walker. The bus had been abandoned since the 1960s, he said.
“I know it’s the right thing for public safety in the area, removing the perilous attraction,” he said. “At the same time, it’s always a little bittersweet when a piece of your history gets pulled out.”
Twelve National Guard employees helped remove the bus; they cut holes in its ceiling and floor to attach chains, the agency said in a prepared statement. The crew also “ensured the safekeeping and safe transportation of a suitcase that holds sentimental value to the McCandless family,” the statement said.
The effort was called “Operation Yutan,” in a reference to Yutan Construction, said National Guard spokeswoman Candis Olmstead. That’s the company that left the bus behind in the 1960s, after it housed workers building a mining road.
Walker said the bus is temporarily being moved to “safe storage,” but wouldn’t reveal its exact location. He said he doesn’t know where it will ultimately end up, but the state’s statement said it’s exploring putting the bus on display.
“We encourage people to enjoy Alaska’s wild areas safely, and we understand the hold this bus has had on the popular imagination,” Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige said in a prepared statement. “However, this is an abandoned and deteriorating vehicle that was requiring dangerous and costly rescue efforts, but more importantly, was costing some visitors their lives. I’m glad we found a safe, respectful and economical solution to this situation.”
There were 15 bus-related search and rescue operations by the state between 2009 and 2017, according to Feige’s department.
In April, a Brazilian tourist was evacuated from the bus by helicopter. And last year, a newlywed woman from Belarus died after being swept away while trying to cross the Teklanika River on her way to the bus.
Another hiker drowned in 2010.
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/06/18/helicopter-removes-into-the-wild-bus-that-lured-alaska-travelers-to-their-deaths/
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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#26758736 - 06/19/20 11:00 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Pretty ironic, Like people saw the film and thought "yeah I can do that, go naively unprepared and untrained into the Alaskan wilderness" and then end up needing rescuing or dying themselves.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Northerner]
#26759238 - 06/20/20 06:55 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yeah I remember reading a story not too long ago where they were considering this. Due to all the tourist incidents directly related to it.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Niffla]
#26759257 - 06/20/20 07:07 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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We should have a shroomers retreat at the site, we can do this!
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: christopera]
#26759276 - 06/20/20 07:19 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ridiculous. It is not the anyone's fault but their own for getting hurt accessing this thing. You don't climb a mountain unprepared you don't go for a hike unprepared. Someone's gonna drive a bus up there and park it just because this is stupid.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla] 1
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Actually I think you should be glad it's gone. A rust trap in the middle of nowhere. Good place to get tetanus. Or were you going to get there well rested, sober, and sure not to scrape against anything.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Brian Jones]
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Tetanus actually does not have much to do with rust, it lives in the soil.
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Every time i see rust it scares me and i run
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Niffla]
#26759442 - 06/20/20 09:17 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Rust trap? Hardly. I was more thinking a barrier between you and the elements/ wildlife. Wouldn't be the same In a tent . A bear would tear thru that so easy. I wanted to go on an adventure into the bush. I literally have nothing better to do on my time off than to chase these crazy ideas. I might go to the empty field where the bus was , but it's not gonna be the same.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
#26760195 - 06/20/20 04:07 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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If a bus drove there once, a bus can drive there again
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Not sure how it got there in the first place. From stampede road it's a 20 mile hike that crosses two rivers. No way around it that I know of
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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Maybe the rivers had a super low water level that year?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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losfreddy said: Not sure how it got there in the first place. From stampede road it's a 20 mile hike that crosses two rivers. No way around it that I know of
They were cutting a trail back there in the 60’s and just left it back there when they left..
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Amanita86]
#26762006 - 06/21/20 01:14 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I see the possibilities for a gofundme to airlift a new and safe bus into place
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I bet it would actually pool enough cash to get one back there...
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Amanita86]
#26762552 - 06/21/20 09:18 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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You guys are a bad influence. Haha. I'll set that up when I get some free time. See if it kicks off
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losfreddy said: Not sure how it got there in the first place. From stampede road it's a 20 mile hike that crosses two rivers. No way around it that I know of
They were cutting a trail back there in the 60’s and just left it back there when they left..
I know , but across two rivers? How?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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A helicopter rescue costs $7400. I honestly hope they put it in some more accessible place because that's probably the only way my smart dumbass is going to see it.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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CookieCrumbs said: A helicopter rescue costs $7400. I honestly hope they put it in some more accessible place because that's probably the only way my smart dumbass is going to see it.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
#26763325 - 06/21/20 03:07 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I say we steal it and drive it back to where he died.
Seriously though it was attracting so many tourists it was becoming like a mini Everest.
It was doomed either way.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#26765509 - 06/21/20 06:20 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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gonna miss that bus big dawg
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#26767301 - 06/21/20 07:34 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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losfreddy said: You guys are a bad influence. Haha. I'll set that up when I get some free time. See if it kicks off
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losfreddy said: Not sure how it got there in the first place. From stampede road it's a 20 mile hike that crosses two rivers. No way around it that I know of
They were cutting a trail back there in the 60’s and just left it back there when they left..
I know , but across two rivers? How?
They run dry, they don’t have water running year around. That’s how Chris got trapped back there, he crossed when it was dry and when he tried to cross back it was flooded.
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#26767726 - 06/21/20 07:45 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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losfreddy said: You guys are a bad influence. Haha. I'll set that up when I get some free time. See if it kicks off
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losfreddy said: Not sure how it got there in the first place. From stampede road it's a 20 mile hike that crosses two rivers. No way around it that I know of
They were cutting a trail back there in the 60’s and just left it back there when they left..
I know , but across two rivers? How?
They run dry, they don’t have water running year around. That’s how Chris got trapped back there, he crossed when it was dry and when he tried to cross back it was flooded.
I read the book and watched the movie.
Maybe I’m in fantasy land because of those survival shows but do you think he could have built a raft with shit in that bus?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#26768094 - 06/21/20 08:05 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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He would have a better chance swimming it than rafting it I reckon. Ice cold water though sucks the energy right out of you so you'd need to be pretty damn fit, like Olympian.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
#26768105 - 06/21/20 08:13 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I’ve only seen the river they used in the movie so I don’t know if it’s the actual river/accurate representation but it looked pretty rough. I think the only chance would be to get in and just accept you’re going to be about a mile downstream by the time you get across but it also looked like it would be easy to get sucked under the rapids and tossed around.
There’s also suspicion he was injured and broke his arm, in a few of his last photos he had his arm cocked in a weird way and people suspect he had a splint on it so that may have been a motivating factor for not wanting to try and cross as well.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Amanita86]
#26768114 - 06/21/20 08:18 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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He lived a fucking totally bad ass life
I loved early in the book where he burnt his money. That’s inspiring af
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#26773548 - 06/22/20 05:20 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Well, what's stopping you?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: TheFakeSunRa]
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i remember liek before i even knew bout him or teh movie i kinda had this urge to just leave everything behind and travel n whatnot but after i watched teh movie and read about it alll n shit i was liek no way yo he did it already and failed or wutever and then i was just kinda numb to it all n shit...... true story......
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: zZZz]
#26773703 - 06/22/20 07:40 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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He failed cause he was unprepared. Many a people live in off the grid style housings. They've been doing it for centuries
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Is every death a failure?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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well i have no desire to go that route anymore although it seemz i'll have to go that route anyway theze dayz...
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: zZZz]
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I live in a town of 20k people, I like it well enough, better trails then in the city and stuff, but I dont think I would like tpo live somewhere smaller, let alone in the wilderness
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: gopher]
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i looked up tpo cuz i thought that meant sumthing and then realized u meant TO, anyway i looked it up and found a few meaningz:
TPO Stands For: Rank Abbreviation Meaning ** TPO Training and Placement Officer ** TPO Totally Pissed Off ** TPO Thrombopoietin Physiology ** TPO Tree Preservation Order Engineering
and i went with totally pissed off and thatz when i realized u meant TO my bad
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zZZz said: i looked up tpo cuz i thought that meant sumthing and then realized u meant TO, anyway i looked it up and found a few meaningz:
TPO Stands For: Rank Abbreviation Meaning ** TPO Training and Placement Officer ** TPO Totally Pissed Off ** TPO Thrombopoietin Physiology ** TPO Tree Preservation Order Engineering
and i went with totally pissed off and thatz when i realized u meant TO my bad
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: zZZz]
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Still TPO man back da fuk off
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: tyrannicalrex]
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Chris was a spoiled little rich brat that thought he could do this big adventure thing and it ended up killing him. What a fucking dipshit to throw away all the opportunities he had in life.
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He had more adventure than a thousand typical men all of whom lived long lives.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
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Yeah, I love the nature lovers. I usually take 3 plus weeks every week on the Pacific Crest Trail. No go, closed. Been on section hiking the last 3 summers. Alaska my brother worked at Denali. Strange stories how they run things there on the buses and rules.
Still trying to figure the fuck I want to do do with Summer. And the news about the virus isn't good so thinking, how shitty this summer will be, one only gets so many of them in life.
But shit, I feel you man. What can you do?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: zZZz]
#26777484 - 06/23/20 06:11 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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i was looking at some alaskans insta story of whomst saw a chinook
maybe this is a cover up for war stuff
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#26779129 - 06/24/20 11:18 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Agreed
Maybe Im wrong in this regard but I feel like the movie portrayed him as some sorta green Jesus
Whilst the book portrays him differently and way more egotistical
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26779151 - 06/24/20 11:25 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: Agreed
Maybe Im wrong in this regard but I feel like the movie portrayed him as some sorta green Jesus
Whilst the book portrays him differently and way more egotistical
Yep! I didn't read the book though, don't need to after the movie. I got my feel from the movie alone, lol.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: tyrannicalrex] 1
#26779247 - 06/24/20 11:55 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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The movie sucked ass (in a bad way )
The book is quite good, but I like most works by Krakauer
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26779616 - 06/24/20 02:51 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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I thought the movie was okay. Sure they may have taken some liberties with his portrayal, but no one wants to watch a film like that and cheer when the main character dies. It was close enough to the truth you can get an understanding of the story and it wasn't boring or brain-dead. There were nice characters and there weren't any parts where I felt like throwing stuff at the television.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Northerner]
#26780010 - 06/24/20 05:58 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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i luved teh movie!!! i mean i'm def probz not ever going to watch it again not willingly at least unless one day i have cable or satellite and im flipping through teh channels and come across it then i may or may not watch a few minutes of it, or if i go to a friends house or im out and about in sum bar or restaurant and they just happen to be playing teh movie then i might also watch but i'm def not going to watch it on my own that'z forsure...
anyway i enjoyed teh movie Emile Hirsch is also a cool dude luv seeing him on teh screen
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Tripsurfer] 1
#26780036 - 06/24/20 06:18 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: The movie sucked ass (in a bad way )
The book is quite good, but I like most works by Krakauer
That Everest book is a god dam hell of a book.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Kimble]
#26780221 - 06/24/20 07:15 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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neva read it
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: zZZz] 1
#26780224 - 06/24/20 07:17 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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Ive only read the wikipedia article, someone found him like 2 weeks after he died, if he only lived a few weeks longer he would have been rescued, thats a sad story
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: gopher] 1
#26780234 - 06/24/20 07:23 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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What ever happened to the greatfull dead bus??
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: gopher]
#26780358 - 06/24/20 08:29 PM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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gopher said: Ive only read the wikipedia article, someone found him like 2 weeks after he died, if he only lived a few weeks longer he would have been rescued, thats a sad story
it'z def a sad story yo he seemed liek such a cool guy full of dreams and so much potential
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Spicemaster said: What ever happened to the greatfull dead bus??
They had the Merry Prankster bus on display at the Oregon Eclipse Festival in 2017. Not sure if that's the same as the Grateful Dead bus or what though.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: PatrickKn]
#26780783 - 06/25/20 12:02 AM (3 years, 7 months ago) |
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man i hope peepz start traveling again liek they did in dem dayz that would be awesome!!!!!!
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: zZZz]
#26785092 - 06/26/20 03:35 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I am strongly considering a piece of property near Healy just off parks road. Thought it be cool to be near a Denali and the stampede road.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
#26785209 - 06/26/20 04:44 PM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Anyone read the book? Seems the M's don't read much. More a screen in front of their face at all times.
And nature became a part of me and me of it. Those that get that sentence get it. Most never will. I live in a hick mormon trump town that is my hometown and I can't travel this summer. God, as a vacation I walked all of from one side of Oregan to the other. And people are like, why would you do that? People that get it know. I wouldn't do what he did, especially in Alaska but that is youth and what the author gets. Like how he worked at Mcdonalds and they complained about his smell and he was just like, fuck this. How much he despised it. I read the article and don't see the need to pay 50 grand to send in that chopper to remove it but I kind of get why they did it. Changes are a coming.
Fuck it. On with life. At least there are trails and rivers within walking distance. No camping. Whatever. Will just drink beer and take my k-pins and hope the next summer is different. Not afraid of Covid. Notice how the media is playing up younger people getting it. And notice that the few, the very few that die from it are fat with a shitty immune system.
God, if animals got it I would be concerned but they don't why? Someone explain that one to me. Plus why did HIV do it's thing on the poor population back then in the 80's? Who did it target and effect the most? Shut down the world, what a joke. Rich white people don't want to share their toys. And who is this effecting and killing the most? Anyone see a simularity?
Edited by Barnaby (06/26/20 04:57 PM)
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
#26812386 - 07/09/20 09:00 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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They were talking about this on the local radio this morn on the way to work so I decided to refresh my memory and go back down the Chris McCandless rabbit hole again. Looks like he survived out there just shy of four months before succumbing.
Had he just brought a map, which he purposefully did not -- according to a local park ranger he would've made it back out to civilization. Which he was trying to do according to his diary, but was blocked by the raging river. A map would have shown him an alternate route but he never knew it was there.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Niffla]
#26812470 - 07/09/20 09:48 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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I recently read an article about 3 teenagers surviving for 50 something days on a small boat adrift in the Pacific Ocean
They drank rainwater and eventually started eating the wooden benches of the boat
Surviving on land with fresh water, shelter and food isnt impossible. He died from accidentally poisoning himself right?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Tripsurfer]
#26812633 - 07/09/20 11:03 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tripsurfer said: He died from accidentally poisoning himself right?
Well it's an educated theory. Nobody knows for certain (I was reading the different theories on how he died this morning).
But when they found him he was severely emaciated and weighed something like 77 pounds. So accidental poisoning or not he was on the brink of death from starvation. He also wrote in his diary that he was now (at the time of the entry) in a life and death situation due to his lack of food intake.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla]
#26812662 - 07/09/20 11:20 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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People should have quit banwagoning the Into the wild guy and drive their own bus up there instead of being idiots that darwinism took over until the army had to step in 
I mean FFS.
Sort of like the guy who studied bears then got eaten by one on live recording. Play with fire, you're gonna get burned. At least carry bear mace(12 gauge semi shotty works too). I mean FFS Wtf?
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Fiery]
#26812677 - 07/09/20 11:25 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Fiery said: People should have quit banwagoning the Into the wild guy and drive their own bus up there instead of being idiots that darwinism took over until the army had to step in 
The author of Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer; he also penned arguably the best Mount Everest book of all-time also btw) admitted after the fact that he was to blame for what ultimately happened to the bus. His article in Outside Magazine and then subsequently the book, which then turned into a major motion picture, is what led to the fascination with it.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Niffla] 1
#26812688 - 07/09/20 11:28 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes, I saw the movie twice and read the flashnotes of the book.
I'm huge into outdoors and hiking - and it was a great story. Especially the part when the bear came around and he couldn't leave the bus. 
It was sad as efff when he died.
And yes, accidental poisoning by a plant I can't remember the name of is a leading theory.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Niffla]
#26812694 - 07/09/20 11:29 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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And apparently Krakauer was one of the first to explore the bus, as McCandless' things were still in the bus -- such as his toothbrush. He said it was eerily undisturbed and it almost felt ghostly, as if McCandless was just out gathering and would return at any moment.
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Fiery]
#26814539 - 07/10/20 08:07 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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Niffla said: Had he just brought a map, which he purposefully did not -- according to a local park ranger he would've made it back out to civilization. Which he was trying to do according to his diary, but was blocked by the raging river. A map would have shown him an alternate route but he never knew it was there.
Which alternative route was that. Just curious is all.
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Fiery said: Yes, I saw the movie twice and read the flashnotes of the book.
I'm huge into outdoors and hiking - and it was a great story. Especially the part when the bear came around and he couldn't leave the bus. 
This is why another bus in that location is essential. Too scared to pitch a tent all alone in the wilderness like that
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Re: army national guard removes 'into the wild' bus [Re: Ogla] 1
#26814554 - 07/10/20 08:16 AM (3 years, 6 months ago) |
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losfreddy said:
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Niffla said: Had he just brought a map, which he purposefully did not -- according to a local park ranger he would've made it back out to civilization. Which he was trying to do according to his diary, but was blocked by the raging river. A map would have shown him an alternate route but he never knew it was there.
Which alternative route was that. Just curious is all.
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McCandless did not have a detailed topographical map of the region and was unaware of a hand-operated tramway that crossed the river 1⁄4 mile (400 m) away from where he had previously crossed.[14] At this point, McCandless headed back to the bus and re-established his camp. He posted an S.O.S. note on the bus, which stated:
Attention Possible Visitors. S.O.S. I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out. I am all alone, this is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless. August?[20]
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