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Alaska removes "Into the WIld" bus
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:29 pm
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:29 pm
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The state of Alaska on Monday relocated the abandoned bus made infamous by Into the Wild, airlifting it out of the backcountry in a joint operation conducted by the Alaska Army National Guard and the state's Department of National Resources.
In a press release the National Guard said that a team of 12 soldiers cut holes in the bus's ceiling and floor in order to rig chains to the vehicle's frame and attach it to a twin-rotor Chinook helicopter, which then carried the bus away from its resting place near the outskirts of Denali National Park.
Also known as the "Magic Bus," the abandoned 1940s-era Fairbanks transit bus first served as a shelter for hunters harvesting game in the forests off of the Stampede Trail. In 1992, adventurer Chris McCandless spent 114 days living in the bus, where he starved to death after becoming trapped by the fast-flowing Teklanika River. McCandless's story became famous with the release of the 1996 bestseller Into the Wild and its 2007 Hollywood adaptation.
The success of Into the Wild drew a steady stream of pilgrims to the Magic Bus, many of whom were unprepared for the Alaskan backcountry. Between 2009 and 2017, crews responded to 15 emergency calls from hikers who had become lost, injured, or trapped on their way to the bus; in February 2020, state police rescued five Italian hikers, one of whom had developed frostbite. At least two hikers have died attempting to make the 20-mile trip, including a Belarusian visitor who drowned in the swollen Teklanika last year.
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“We encourage people to enjoy Alaska’s wild areas safely, and we understand the hold this bus has had on the popular imagination,” Corri A. Feige, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, said in the release. “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.”
The bus is currently in storage while the state considers what to do with it, Feige said. One proposed solution is to put it on display in a safer location.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:31 pm to Jim Rockford
Did it have gator bait tagged on it or something?
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:31 pm to Jim Rockford
What an idiot that dude was
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:31 pm to Jim Rockford
"Into The Wild" dude was a straight up mouth-breathing idiot
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:31 pm to Jim Rockford
Can't blame them. Ever since the book and then with the movie, inexperienced hikers have been trekking out there and getting injured or lost. Then Alaska has to send their people in to retrieve them, often in unsafe conditions. Surprised they waited this long.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:32 pm to Jim Rockford
Man, those Chinooks are badass. But frick getting into one of them.
My b hole would be in my throat the entire time.
My b hole would be in my throat the entire time.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:32 pm to ellishughtiger
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Did it have gator bait tagged on it or something?
Only white people had ever been in it since 1940
Burn it
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:32 pm to Jim Rockford
Great book. I guess they moved it because people stupidly couldn’t resist trying to get to it even though it was beyond their skills.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:35 pm to Cosmo
An empty bag of uncle bens rice was found in the bus apparently
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:36 pm to ManBearTiger
Some of the locals said that he wasn't trapped by the river and that he had an access to the other side but he didn't bother walking far enough.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:46 pm to dchog
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Some of the locals said that he wasn't trapped by the river and that he had an access to the other side but he didn't bother walking far enough.
Yep. Idiot could've walked a quarter mile to a man-made track across the river. He went into that wilderness without a map. Basically committed slow suicide.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:50 pm to dchog
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Some of the locals said that he wasn't trapped by the river and that he had an access to the other side but he didn't bother walking far enough.
Yeah, there was a hand-crank tram or something like that not far from him.
Also some other shelters nearby that probably had provisions.
ETA: What's really amazing to me is how that bus ended up 20+ miles off-road. I guess it must have been on an old logging road?
This post was edited on 6/19/20 at 1:51 pm
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:52 pm to BluegrassBelle
People go to visit the bus? Wasn’t that guy soup by the time they found him?
Yucky..
Yucky..
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:53 pm to Jim Rockford
They said they'd stop with the Confederate Statutes!!!
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:54 pm to Jim Rockford
I missed the part of this that was racist.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:55 pm to ezride25
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I missed the part of this that was racist.
This is pretty much peak white privilege.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:56 pm to LSUBoo
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ETA: What's really amazing to me is how that bus ended up 20+ miles off-road. I guess it must have been on an old logging road?
Drove it out during the winter when everything was frozen up.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 1:57 pm to Jim Rockford
Great movie and great book. Upsetting news.
Posted on 6/19/20 at 2:00 pm to schatman
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He went into that wilderness without a map. Basically committed slow suicide.
Yep. And went with very little knowledge of how to actually live in the Alaskan wild.
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