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Everybody seems to be putting up firewalls to keep people from looking without disabling adblockers... The bus needs to go away... multiple deaths and rescues because of it so far...

Five tourists rescued after trying to reach 'Into the Wild' bus
Erin McGroarty, emcgroartynewsminer.com Feb 23, 2020 Updated 11 hrs ago

Stampede Trail 'magic bus'
A group of hikers take a break at Bus 142 along the Stampede Trail on June 21, 2009.


A group of five Italian tourists was rescued this weekend from the "Into the Wild" bus located off the Stampede Trail near Healy.

The group called for help around 8 a.m. Saturday while en route to the bus...

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Be quite the undertaking to remove that bus too.

Some dumbass would still look for it and get lost..

Why do people want to go see a POS broken down bus out in the middle of nowhere?

CH 47, or CH 53E. The boys probably need the training anyway.

Why is that a draw.......to see where some misguided fool died?

I went wife my wife 5 years ago. At one point in the trail your along the sushana river. There were two hippie chicks there and one was topless. Didnt have a care in the world that we were there. Ive been wanting to go back since.

Some people just don't learn. Knew someone who was an aspiring rock climber. Took a major fall and had to endure a few years of surgeries with no luck. Ended up amputating. Still doing it now but even more dangerous spots. Kinda like bart Simpson sticking his hand into the fire and expecting a different outcome every time. Rush, I get it. Only rush I want to experience is opening an Amazon package containing a much needed tool. I'm boring. I like it that way.

Nothing a nice hot fire wouldn't fix.

Because dipstick made a movie about it, otherwise who the fook would know?

22lr and moose....

Laffin here. Its funny how that happens. There's probably a guy reading your story, planning this deathly hike right now.

IMO, the bus should be left there, but with a sign at the river warning people that they are on their own and people have died attempting to visit.

Of course people will go, but there ain't no rescue.

Or planning to trade his wife for two hippie chicks, one topless n less.

Now it's 'BUS VIOLENCE'

and the nanny sate must provide protection!?!?!?!?

Am I the only one that's clueless?


There is a broken down bus that people make a dangerous
pilgrimage to?


How the heck did a bus get to a place that's so dangerous to walk to?

John Krakauer wrote a book about a young man who was a wandering soul, who wondered out into the wilderness of Alaska to try to live off the land. He wandered until he found an old bus, (if Alaska is like Montana, hippies in the 70s took buses into remote locations to try to live off the land) he died. The end.
The discussion has been whether the berries in his diet killed him or whether he starved.
I support more busses being placed into the wilderness, lots of people want to test their mettle.

The book is a great read, by the way ! The young man had just gotten in way over his pay grade, and it cost him his life.

I didn’t even think it was that great of a book. They made a movie? Why ever for?

I'm with you, never heard of it until now. I got this off of Wikipedia. This dude wasn't only crazy, he was stupid. Sounds like a Darwin Award Winner.

Christopher Johnson McCandless (/məˈkændlɪs/; February 12, 1968[2] – c. August 1992), also known by the pseudonym Alexander Supertramp (Alex), was an American hiker who sought an increasingly itinerant lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length feature film.

After graduating from college in 1990, McCandless traveled across North America and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he set out along an old mining road known as the Stampede Trail with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. On the eastern bank of the Sushana River, McCandless found an abandoned bus, Fairbanks Bus 142, which he used as a makeshift shelter until his death. In September, his decomposing body, weighing only 67 pounds (30 kilograms), was found by a hunter inside the bus. McCandless's cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation,[3][4] although the exact cause remains the subject of some debate.[5][6][7][8]

Fairbanks City Transit System Bus 142 is an abandoned 1946 International Harvester K-5 that is parked in a clearing along the Stampede Trail near Denali National Park. It was originally one of a few buses used by the Yutan Construction Company to provide remote accommodations for the construction crew from Fairbanks that worked on road upgrades in 1960–1961. The bus engine was removed and it was instead towed by Caterpillar D8 bulldozers. It contained beds and a wood-burning stove, which still remain today. When the Stampede Mine ceased operations in the 1970s, all but this one bus were removed from the trail. Bus 142 had a broken rear axle, which caused the crew to leave it where it now serves as a backcountry shelter for hunters, trappers, and visitors.

Ah yes, I remember those hippie girls from my college days.



Ah yes, I remember those hippie girls from my college days. The calendar gets us all eventually.