Anyone visit that bus from the movie "Into The Wild" (how much, camper)

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by bravesdream21

I am headed there in 2 weeks and staying 3 weeks.

Any help though on how to get there from texas on small budget.

Watch the movie...

[starlite9]

Sunday, I am flying my plane back to Anchorage, maybe I will fly over the bus and take a photo of it if the weather is good.

These clowns that think it was a Wilderness Bus have no clue that there is a road to it (that is how it got there) and people have been going there for years before the idiot died there, and still are after his death.

The movie glamorized stupitiy and the followers of the kid just amaze me with how they have no concept of what an idiot he was. He may have hated his family, but he didn't respect Nature either and it's ability to kill him.

[aurorawatcher]

Well the news will have something new to print again.

I thought they were going to haul that out of there.

[Grannysroost]

Originally Posted by warptman

Another lost cause.

Sounds like an LT...

[starlite9]

Well tried to fly up by the bus to take some aerial photos of it, but the weather was too bad over that area. Will be headed back up on Thursday evening or Friday morning and will try to get a photo of the bus then. Passing over Broad Pass the weather wasn't very good either, cloud ceiling was at about 6,000 and couldn't see Mt. McKinley either. Really a grand site at 6,000 feet when the sky is clear!

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by aurorawatcher

Well the news will have something new to print again.

I thought they were going to haul that out of there.

We should use that bus when advertising the state to lesser-48ers.

"Come see Alaska! Visit the bus, starve to death like an idiot, and have Hollywood make a movie about your stupidity!"

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by bravesdream21

What a elementary way of answering these peoples mind boggling way of human error and at all cost. I am from Texas and have traveled all around the world and me too i will be starting my adventure there in Healy. If you have any information as to the exact location; it would be most helpful. I am also trying to find my way from Austin MB on into Healy and ideas, is their a bus that can get me close and I will walk the rest. I am a special ops and army ranger and have survived off less than he ever did. Am I any brighter? probably not, just a guy searching for a new place to call home and enjoy natures very own.

Thanks for your writings on the matter and have a great weekend

Rick

Dead man walking.

You can travel all over the world, and still never encounter an environment like Alaska. I do not care how well trained in survival someone might be, if they did not train in Alaska they are novices. All the flora and fauna in Alaska are completely different from anything in the lower-48, Europe, Asia, South America, or Africa. It is a unique environment that people need to learn in Alaska.

I felt the same as you when I first arrived. I served in the Marine Corps during Vietnam and an avid hunter since age 8. I have hunted all over the lower-48. I was also EMT-W certified by the Red Cross just before I moved to Alaska. I felt very prepared.

It was only after I arrived that I learned just how unprepared I truly was. Damn little of what I knew about hunting in the lower-48 applied in Alaska. None of the vegetation I knew to be safe to eat existed in Alaska. I had to relearn just about everything I knew about living outdoors.

You may think you are prepared to live in Alaska's wilderness, but if you have never been to Alaska that is only hubris.

[Dusty Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

Probably never. I wonder how long it'll be before they make the movie into a tv show?

Hummmm, could always make it a game show and title it "Do Not Feed The Bears!"

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by Glitch

You can travel all over the world, and still never encounter an environment like Alaska. I do not care how well trained in survival someone might be, if they did not train in Alaska they are novices. All the flora and fauna in Alaska are completely different from anything in the lower-48, Europe, Asia, South America, or Africa. It is a unique environment that people need to learn in Alaska.

Great imagination, wonderful story... and untrue.

An example that I experienced is worth repeating. A few decades ago we took my mother-in-law to visit my mother. One trip we made was to the Olympic Peninusula in western Washington, where these two old ladies walked through the rain forest comparing notes on virtually every plant they saw. They both knew of the same medicinal uses for each plant, they both knew which were not edible. It was fascinating because they both had the same store of information. In fact, the only plants they didn't know in common were the evergreen trees.

What makes that special, and the reason it applies to this discussion is that one of those ladies was born and raised in western Washington, and was a farm girl who had had all of her life an interest in botany. She was basically in her own back yard while the other lady was born in Kipnuk Alaska, on the western edge of Alaska bordering the Bering Sea. She did not even speak English, and her daughter translated between English and Yup'ik.

It is virtually the same plants and the same fauna and the requirements for survival are identical. Indeed, there are several locations in southern Arizona, no less, that provide an Arctic environment!

[rotorhead]

Out of all the various flavors of Alaska-themed idiocy, this fascination with that damned bus strikes me as perhaps the most inexplicable. Certainly not the MOST idiotic (that dubious honor accrues to Treadwell), but certainly odd.

Personally, I think they ought to blow the thing to smithereens, load it up with C-4 and make it into widely scattered confetti. Either that or drag the damned thing out with a bulldozer and park it somewhere the ambulances can reach when yet another dimwitted dreamer type decides to pass out there, for whatever reason.

It's just a bus, FFS.