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Old 07-28-2020, 07:57 AM
 
Location: Grosse Ile Michigan
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They did. See post #243. The bus has been moved from the site, finally.
Do they have signs saying that? Otherwise people will still go out looking for it and get even more lost when they are unable to find it.
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Old 07-28-2020, 08:16 AM
 
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
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Do they have signs saying that? Otherwise people will still go out looking for it and get even more lost when they are unable to find it.
I suspect they don't have signs up yet, as the bus was just removed. But putting some up at the start of that trail would definitely be a good idea.
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Old 07-28-2020, 08:30 AM
 
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I would have moved it to the parking lot. Save everyone the hassle of finding it. Put it on display and the "non hikers" can look at it, take pics and then get back in their car and return to wherever they came from.

Real hikers will walk past it on their way to their hike.
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Old 07-28-2020, 08:55 AM
 
Location: Canada
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Yay!!

Well, it's about time! Thank goodness, at long last somebody finally had the good sense to lift that morbid death cult attraction out of there. This is good news about that piece of bad luck trash being disposed of. There's a lot of people in Alaska are going to be very happy about this and heaving sighs of relief that it's gone. I hope the bus was dropped off at the wreckers and crushed flat as a pancake. Good riddance to a ghoulishly fatal bad news maker.

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Old 07-28-2020, 01:55 PM
 
Location: Oregon Coast
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Do they have signs saying that? Otherwise people will still go out looking for it and get even more lost when they are unable to find it.
Bingo. Now they are going to have people getting lost going out looking for the thing.
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Old 07-28-2020, 04:39 PM
 
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Shame, shoulda kept it.
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Old 07-29-2020, 11:00 AM
 
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Bingo. Now they are going to have people getting lost going out looking for the thing.
Fewer people.

We can safely assume that a non-zero percentage of those who'd consider that bus a pilgrimage shrine will now be aware it's moved, right? Fewer people go out, fewer people get lost.
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Old 07-31-2020, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Flyover Country
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I found this article about people’s obsession with Chris McCandless story.

https://www.outsideonline.com/192062...ession-problem

Just maybe it will help shine some light as to why people still make the trek.
That is such a great story, thanks!
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Old 07-31-2020, 06:54 PM
 
Location: CasaMo
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Do they have signs saying that? Otherwise people will still go out looking for it and get even more lost when they are unable to find it.
No. It's an extremely remote and incredibly massive wilderness.
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Old 07-31-2020, 09:39 PM
 
Location: Homeless
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Originally Posted by City Guy997S View Post
and how did that work out?


Kid had mental issues and poor decision making killed him.

Why don't they destroy that bus? Quite a few people died getting out there.
Actually he was very brilliant we all make poor decisions in life, he lived more than most people do we spend the day surfing the internet and think having a life is watching Tv on their days off.
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