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Out of the Wild? Alaskan Town Considers Removing McCandless Bus
The Toronto Star has a story about the recent meeting at a town hall: “Various options were suggested, including moving the bus either to the start of the trail where people could drive to see it or to a park in nearby Fairbanks. ‘Although if we were to airlift it out of there, I don’t know that the bus just wouldn’t fall apart,’ said town Mayor David Talerico. ‘Some folks say the bus has been there so long, why not just leave it or just get rid of it altogether?’” The bus is one of many placed at strategic points in the Alaskan wilderness to serve as refuges for hunters. Talerico went on: “The problem with getting rid of it is that we want to maintain its traditional use. But you know, Alaskans don’t want to spend their whole summer out rescuing people.” Local hunting guide and reluctant pilgrim-rescuer Coke Wallace told the Star about his encounter with a young Torontonian visitor: “I told him there was no way he was going to last with only 10 pounds of rice, then I tried to give him some more food. And he said, ‘No. I want to replicate it exactly. That’d be cheating.’ I told him, ‘Well don’t replicate it exactly, I don’t want to be hauling a dead body back.’”
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COMMENTSI think it would be great to just keep the bus there, where it was left...What is it hurting??? Why spend town dollars moving that bus? Keep it as a memorial..If his parents set up a memorial for him at the site, leave it there.. By on 3.23.08 at 11:29 PM
I think the bus should stay. By on 3.24.08 at 12:43 AM
Hey guy, you reallyhave to think hard on this one, seriously, you have to look at what this young man did, and how that was the main point of survial for him. I do think the bis should just stay there, if your worried about people going to see it and getting trapped, Instead of spending money on it removal, spend the movey on a walking trail to it, or a trail you can drive through, It would be a major tourist attraction since the movie come out. By on 3.27.08 at 09:00 PM
Why not take the bus out and put it in town as a memorial? By on 3.31.08 at 02:53 AM
If the locals want it gone, it’ll be gone. I imagine there are two local schools of thought on the matter:
1)Who cares?
I would never want to visit a place where some guy starved to death. Seems kind of sick, really. It’s been awhile since I’ve read the book, but I think a better way to honor the memory of Chris would be to travel around the country and enjoy the outdoors. If they do move the bus, they should build a small monument or a shack for for the hunters in memory of Chrs. By Kelsey on 4.6.08 at 07:57 AM
The bus should be buried as well as poor chris was.(It will only lead too many people into this unspoilt wild.It would be better as “Kesley” said and to build a shack for the hunters,and a small monument
By on 4.17.08 at 03:14 AM
Wild dances! By Laptoper on 4.28.08 at 07:22 PM
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Future “McCandless pilgrims” could be in for a disappointment. The Alaskan town of Healy, located about 40 kilometers from the old school bus where Christopher McCandless died, is considering the removal, restoration or destruction of the bus before the next wave of greenhorns, inspired by the 
