Into the Wild | Exploring the Real Abandoned Bus

***UPDATE: The bus has been moved! WATCH MY VIDEO ABOUT IT HERE: https://bit.ly/3ekGk4N

On July 7th 2019 I spent 24 hours at the long abandoned Fairbanks Bus 142 ('Magic Bus') on the Stampede Trail near Healy, Alaska. The bus was made popular by Christopher Johnson McCandless also known by the pseudonym Alexander Supertramp.

I did this trip with my friend Ryan Lester of ParklandFilms. Check out his take on this adventure over on his channel:    / parklandfilms  

He is the subject of 'Into the Wild', a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length feature film directed by Sean Penn. My personal interest in this seemingly un-reachable destination interested me from a young age as we studied the book in school and I have watched the movie plenty times over. Actually getting to be at the real bus in person was an experience I will never forget.

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Chris discovered the bus on his soul-searching adventure with the goal of living off the land in the Alaskan wilderness. Days into his solo trek, he stumbled upon the bus and made it his home for 112 day until he became stranded and ended up dying there due to starvation and other complications. Hunters found him weeks later.

Known as "The Magic Bus", the 1946 International Harvester was abandoned by road workers in 1961 on the Stampede Trail where it remains today.

Now, people all over the world know Chris's story from the journals he kept from his time at the bus. He became a romantic figure to some inspired by what they see as his free-spirited idealism, but to others a controversial misguided figure. "The Magic Bus" has become a pilgrimage destination for trekkers who camp at the vehicle, some of whom have also gotten into difficulties or even died due to the Teklanika River.