shame to see a landmark go
I thought they were using it up there as a tourist trap, you know to catch the dumb ones.
I was stationed in Alaska in 1992 when McCandless went missing, we were active Army and tasked, the unit flew a couple hundred hours of SAR out of Wainwright looking for him.
I know I flew over the bus several times, but I believe he was deceased by the time we were called in to look for him - not sure on the timing anymore.
We had at least one SAR task every year looking for somebody from the lower 48 that wandered off into the woods.
Worst situation was an active duty soldier that left his young kids to "look over the hill", and got turned around - found everybody, but it highlights the idiot factor and the lack of understanding of how big / unforgiving the Alaskan Wilderness is.
