Killjoy was here: AK Natl guard removes “magic bus” from wilderness, Stampede Trail.

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Wasn't there a stream flow gauge with a cable across the river and a basket or something to stand or sit in like a mile upstream from the bus? But McCandless never went up that way and didn't know about it? I read that book a long while ago but I seem to recall that.

Something like that, though I thought it was an actual bridge.


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[iceman]

There was a bridge at the highway which he would have reached if he followed the river, but also:

"...if he had a topographical map, it would have showed the USGS gauging station just one half mile down stream. At that location is a one inch thick cable spanning across the river. It even turns out the passenger basket was anchored to his side which would have been a fun way to cross for him."

Here's a pic of it:


Pretty good short description of the situation here: http://www.willhiteweb.com/info/into...ndless_089.htm

[Benny Profane]

I know Krakauer is a good writer and all, but I cannot understand the deification of some jaded rich kid getting himself killed by being a moron.

That was sort of the point.

[Brownski]

There was a bridge at the highway which he would have reached if he followed the river, but also:

"...if he had a topographical map, it would have showed the USGS gauging station just one half mile down stream. At that location is a one inch thick cable spanning across the river. It even turns out the passenger basket was anchored to his side which would have been a fun way to cross for him."

Here's a pic of it:


Pretty good short description of the situation here: http://www.willhiteweb.com/info/into...ndless_089.htm

That’s a good description of the situation. I always thought the most heartbreaking aspect of the story was how close he was to two viable ways out.

[iceman]

You'd think that with months to poke around he'd have followed the river for a half mile just to see what was there. That's a big part of what really got me about the whole story.

[old goat]

I will buy the magic bus for 100 English pounds

[m2711c]

[Bunion 2020]

I will buy the magic bus for 100 English pounds

95.....

[highangle]

Rename it, "Furthust"
Fake scrawlings of Alexander Supertramp on brewpub tables
Charge Millenials to pose
Profit

[bennymac]

Shit that’s a great idea - build a park with a 100 different Instagram backgrounds (cool waterfalls, fields of flowers, microbrew bars and coffee shops and avocado toast restaurants, urban decay scene (sanitized for your health of course) with fake Banksy art on the wall....charge an entrance fee, have photographers for hire, makeup and wardrobe for hire....

[dunfree]

Shit that’s a great idea - build a park with a 100 different Instagram backgrounds (cool waterfalls, fields of flowers, microbrew bars and coffee shops and avocado toast restaurants, urban decay scene (sanitized for your health of course) with fake Banksy art on the wall....charge an entrance fee, have photographers for hire, makeup and wardrobe for hire....

Isn’t that what New York City has become?

even before Instagram humans liked easily transferable experiences & “proof” of them, after all Lord Byron carved his name on the Temple of Poseidon.

[bennymac]

Times Square has been an Instagram background for a over a century

[old goat]

The world could sure use Keith Moon right about now.

[Benny Profane]

The world could sure use Keith Moon right about now.

He would just drink himself to death again in quarantine.

[VTeton]

Shit that’s a great idea - build a park with a 100 different Instagram backgrounds (cool waterfalls, fields of flowers, microbrew bars and coffee shops and avocado toast restaurants, urban decay scene (sanitized for your health of course) with fake Banksy art on the wall....charge an entrance fee, have photographers for hire, makeup and wardrobe for hire....

This shit Already exists....
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-...ton-instagram/

[ex-powderbroker]

“happiness only real if shared” - instagram