Christopher McCandless

I saw the following post on a survivalist board recently: I live in St Augustine whent to feed the hungry tonight . I do this every two weeks there was 90 to 100 people. Myself and my wife and 15yr duoghter and 9yr son. The thing is we see more kids and people that live in there cars. Most of the pe...

The bus looks really bad. The steering wheel and dashboard are gone, virtually everything that could be taken was, the fireweed is all dead and the whole area looks trampled. Most of the windows are gone. I think that it's not worth going out there anymore. Eventually the locals are gonna say no mor...

IMO Jon Krakauer not tracking Tracy down was a BIG hole in his research. He must have figured that it would be impossible to track her down. By my reckoning, if she was 17 in 1991 she'd be 37 or 38 today. How did her life turn out? The Reno police are frequently rescuing kids of tramps from exploita...

As we all know, Chris went several days at a time without eating rather than use money. I think that hitchhiking is a lot more dangerous now than it was in Chris's day, I think our own time is similar to the 60s when serial killers cruised the highways looking for victims. I think the big issue now ...

Yes, I'm set on doing it alone. Sorry. If you're ever around south Oregon, and I happen to run across you, I'll give you some food. I currently live in California, and this may take a couple years anyway.

Well, I don't trust the media on this story (or most stories) and here is why. I went to "the slab city organization" web site:http://www.slabcity.org/history.asp. Here is a quote from their website:"The State of California is currently considering closing Slab City to the public per...

...live in the wild. Well, not EXACTLY like Chris. I plan to buy a couple acres in Klamath County, Oregon, and raise chickens and rabbits, and grow veggies. It will be in a forested area though, and I plan on learning how to forage in the area. The river runs right alongside US 97, so I'm not sure i...

http://www.theledger.com/article/20111214/news/111219591?p=all&tc=pgall Accessed from a much shorter MSNBC article. For once, ITW and Chris seems to have had nothing to do with it. He was part of a group of friends who apparently were friends with some rail-riding tramps, and ultimately adopted ...

There's a TOUR now???? Anything to milk Chris's tale for money, right? Walt McCandless is the one person who made Chris run away, and from what I've read, he STILL has yet to accept responsibility. Chris would be disgusted too. I mean, he turned his back on the whole materialism thing, but it got hi...

Costales is 22. Most high school students today have heard of ITW, it's pretty much replaced The Catcher In The Rye as the go-to narrative of alienated, idealistic youth. When I was in HS, early 90s, my 11th grade English class spent a couple months on Catcher In The Rye. My understanding is that IT...