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Thought this forum might be interested: https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-19/bus-from-jon-krakauer-into-the-wild-is-removed-from-alaskan-wilderness " By Associated Press June 19, 2020 4:26 AM JUNEAU, Alaska — An abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness, popularized by author Jon Krakauer’s book “Into the Wild” and the movie of the same name, has been removed, state officials said. The decision prioritizes public safety, Alaska Natural Resources Commissioner Corri Feige said Thursday. The bus has long attracted adventurers to an area without cellphone service and marked by unpredictable weather and at-times swollen rivers. Some have had to be rescued or have died. Christopher McCandless, the subject of the book and movie, died there in 1992. The rescue earlier this year of five Italian tourists and death last year of a woman from Belarus intensified calls from local officials for the bus, about 25 miles from the Parks Highway, to be removed. 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. The Alaska National Guard said in a statement that the bus was removed using a heavy-lift helicopter. The crew ensured the safety of a suitcase with sentimental value to the McCandless family, the statement added, without describing that item further. "
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Jun 20, 2020 00:04
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I flew over this when it was still there in little Cessna... it was prettttay out there with nothing around
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Jul 17, 2020 16:20
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Good, imo.
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Jul 17, 2020 20:29
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rip to the bus. killed by potato seeds
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Jul 17, 2020 22:48
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Alaskans always laugh about what a god damned moron that kid was. Good, glad they moved it. e: the kid and also that ding-dong who got eaten by the grizzlies on camera
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Jul 17, 2020 23:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuWfVqvoyc4
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Jul 18, 2020 00:02
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yea apparently several stupid people had to be rescued from the bus due to making pilgrimages to it so it was both dangerous and im pretty sure locals were tired of footing the bill for rescuing dumbass tourists who had no idea what they were doing i kind of get why people are obsessive about mccandless since he represents something a lot of people wish they could do but god was he dumb
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Jul 18, 2020 00:04
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Aren't people still going to go out to the location, even without the bus? I'm sure someone will go and put up a little memorial with a toy bus or something.
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Jul 18, 2020 00:05
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Idea: refuse to rescue anyone going to the bus and don't recover their bodies, like everest, so future adventurers can use their corpses as landmarks i know there's some flaws in this plan like that there's no bus anymore and bodies would just rot or be eaten.
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Jul 18, 2020 00:18
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Man, the sound of tourists and hikers going far into the wilderness without anyway of getting telephone service just to find a rusty abandoned bus makes a decent urban legend. Would be better than siren head at least
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