One day walk to bus and drive back-excellent!

[Husky]

Here's what a lot of us were seeing last year out on the trail...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGDl-t9lgnw

Hikers enjoying a quiet hike to the wilderness only to find big tire trucks now visit the area too. Hey, at least you can hitch a ride back to 8 Mile Lake if you get blisters.

[nickparis]

Is this your video Husky?

I was on the trail on the 18th/19th 2012, spent the night of the 18th at the bus, fortunatley for us we saw no 4x4's

Nick

[Husky]

NO, that's not my video and I'm not in it. I've lived around Healy for 40 years and don't recognise any of the people in the trucks. But I don't know a lot of the young guys around here now so they could be from the area. I came across the video on the Denali Park Facebook page under the story about the Rangers going to the bus.

I thought it was cool that the hiker was able to get there in 6 1/2 hours. Being May I suppose some of the ground would have been still frozen and more solid than in the summer. The Tek looks real low.

May can be a good time to walk out there although this year we still have a ton of snow on the trail and you would need snowshoes for parts of it. Supposed to snow some more this friday and saturday.
Global warming my ass!

[erikhalfacre]

The truck driver in that video is a member of this forum. I'm not sure if he's been active lately, but his screenname was KodiakDodge or something to that effect. I've talked to him a few times in the past, and even found his buddy's camera stuck in the mud out by the bus when I hiked out last year. He seems like a pretty nice guy if you ask me.

Personally I'm just impressed that he can get through the muddy swamp/field between fish creek and the Savage. Though it might detract from the serenity, so would a helicopter coming down on you while you're at the bus, and I don't think there's anything illegal about it (correct me if I'm wrong.) Historically it was suppose to be a road after all. Heck, the people that found Chris' body were out there in motorized vehicles.

There's actually at least one member on this forum I know of who did catch a ride out with him one time as well, and it's not the guy in the vid.