Bus removal

Now we have to Childproof the great outdoors.

Well I don't blame them Drifter, there's no cell service there.

gotta wonder how many lives that old bus saved by giving folks a dry place to hold up???

[color:#33CC00]The Alaska Army National Guard moved the bus as part of a training mission "at no cost to the public or additional cost to the state," Feige said.
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Who else funds The Alaska Army National Guard?

Grizzlies ate Christopher? Do you mean Timothy?

I'm glad it's gone. It had become a shrine, when it should have been a monument to stupidity. It attracted visitors with little skill and judgement. Too many times Healy area people, (locals), had to rescue pilgrims to that shrine. Several died out there. I checked it out the winter after Chris McCandless' body was recovered. Before it got famous. It was not much of a shelter, just a roof. Cold in winter, buggy in summer. Too bad that chinook didn't fly south with it and drop it in the gulf of Alaska.

X2^^^^^

Could have dropped it in the backyard of a famous Anchorage, Alaska lawyer!

Chris

Why drop that crap in the ocean to mess things up..LOL Scrap it get few bucks even that won't come close to cost of fuel for the chopper..And your right seems like everything is a shrine now days. Don't need any more them.

Mac

I remember reading the book, not being able to identify the seeds he consumed was the coup des gras.

I always like a good coup of de gras when I eat foie gras

I prefer the sedan de gras myself but to each their own.

It should have been cut up into little pieces and sold off for an exorbitant amount of money to the tree huggers-proceeds to go to the Alaska Trappers Association for trapline re-habilitation(garbage cleanup).

Timothy Treadwell or Chris McCandless?.......

Chris McCandless died In the bus WNW of Healy. Timothy Treadwell and his girlfriend died in a tent in SW Alaska, just across Shelikov Straight from Kodak Island. Different details but united by a common lack of respect and humility.

Moving it was good. But shoulda dropped it safely on the other side of the river (the Healy side) and not advertised it. Let folks continue to go there but now without having to cross the river. Charge a fee to go there. Very few would have noticed they didn't have to cross the river!!

Nah, I hope it disappears completely. 1 less shrine to draw inept pilgrims to the state. I'm not against visitors, but people who enshrine idiots are just greater idiots. The book and movie are about a guy who went into the Bush unprepared and died for it. So what do his fans do? Go into the Bush unprepared, and die or get rescued. That bus has been a blight ever since some dreamie yuppies made it famous.

Yeah, glorifying an idiot like McCandless is almost as misguided as he was...The movie was directed by Sean Penn, so that should tell folks something