Christopher McCandless

erikhalfacre wrote:Actually I was kind of thinking of putting a list like this on the Hiking The Stampede Trail website. Would you have any objection to that? I don't want to steal anyone's idea.

Sounds like a GREAT idea to me!

For those of you that haven't checked out this guy's blog, it's AWESOME!! Very interesting and Greg has travelled all over!

We've been keeping an updated guide under the 'Discussions on Alaska' tab then 'Helpful Advice And What You'll Need To Get To The Magic Bus' topic. Pretty useful stuff. I wrote a rather lenghty post for the solo hikers out there, which I would not advise doing unless you already have extensive exper...

Have you been to the Magic Bus? Do you have facebook? If you meet the previous qualifications you should join the group on facebook called Christopher McCandless - those of us who have visited the Magic Bus. The group is a place to easily share stories, pictures, and videos of your trip on facebook!...

Thanks for the information! I actually am friends w/ Roman Dial on facebook. I've been into packrafting for awhile now

Did anyone say Duck tape??! I took a roll of RED Duck Tape w/ me on my 2010 trip. You know what they say about duck tape... fixes anything!

GoNorth wrote:I just found this link here, which also contains some more or less detailed maps: http://www.orecreek.org/bin/messageaudio/2009/Wildlife.pdf

For some reason I'm finding that this link doesn't work

I have actually had the opportunity to talk with Claire (the woman who drown's) mother. Her idea, and I think that it's a good one, is to simply construct some kind of bridge or cable trolley over the river. To add to that, there was already such a trolley at one point. It would seem to me that any...

erikhalfacre wrote:Guess I'll have to hike back out there to find out. That'll be summer of 2012 though so if anyone else feels like spilling the beans I'm really curious now. Wait... it's not beans is it?

Eric,
I'm going back to the Bus in June of 2012. Maybe I'll see you there!

ellisd wrote:also, some google earth files that can be downloaded will show his jounrey along with dates of when and where he was.

Ellisd,
What do you search to find these google earth files??