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Old 08-29-2009, 12:48 AM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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2 hikers missing along Stampede Trail near Denali: Alaska News | adn.com

Someone really should go out there to set up an espresso stand.
What the State should do is to remove the bus from there, or just blow it up or something. It's incredible how some people are dumb enough to go out there in pursuit of some illusion.
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Old 08-29-2009, 12:59 AM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Then the idiots will hike out there to look at the crater left behind where the bus was!
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Old 08-29-2009, 10:10 AM
 
Location: Nome
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Won't have to dig a hole to bury them then.
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Old 08-29-2009, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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Then the idiots will hike out there to look at the crater left behind where the bus was!
Real funny, and probably true

But by now, after rescuing people from around the bus, the Sate should have learned that it's best to get the bus out of there.
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Old 08-29-2009, 04:30 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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Maybe it's best if the state puts a phone booth out there with a credit card swipe.
If you want to be rescued, swipe your card and call for an assist.
You can't pay, the state should put up an arrow pointing the way out.
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Old 08-30-2009, 01:42 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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I talked with the Denali borough last year and they were concidering draggng the bus out to the highway so they didn't need to keep going out to look for the clueless. Seems that would be a great money maker by starting a "Pay to see" the bus gig....
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Old 08-30-2009, 01:48 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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the state should put up an arrow pointing the way out.


Nature already has them there.....

Magnetic North
North Star
Sun rises in the Eastern regions (depending on season)
Sun sets in the Western regions (depending on season)

Then the big clue.... Road to bus is only road there!
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Old 08-30-2009, 03:54 PM
 
Location: New Jersey
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O.k. wait let met get this straight..there is a road?
Don't know why but imagined this bus somehow out off the road system.
I know it makes no sense but I just never pictured a road.
How the heck does one get lost on a road?
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Old 08-30-2009, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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I talked with the Denali borough last year and they were concidering draggng the bus out to the highway so they didn't need to keep going out to look for the clueless. Seems that would be a great money maker by starting a "Pay to see" the bus gig....
Great idea. They could make some sort of monument out of it, and next to the highway, but not too close because some folks would probably get run-over by a car or something
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Old 08-30-2009, 04:12 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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O.k. wait let met get this straight..there is a road?
Don't know why but imagined this bus somehow out off the road system.
I know it makes no sense but I just never pictured a road.
How the heck does one get lost on a road?
It's more of a trail than anything. Years ago someone probably drove the bus on the trail, maybe during the winter when the ground and mud froze (don't really know). But the bus had been used for years and years by hunters and other people as a shelter. Then this guy dies in it, and now all the people who have read the book about his "adventure," or those who have watched the movie, go into a sort of "pilgrimage" in memory of the guy who died there.
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