Visit The Into The WIld Magic Bus: Chris McCandless
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Visit The "Magic Bus" from Into The Wild with us as it sat on June 22, 2011.
We did a quick walk through of the bus where Chris McCandless lived in the summer of 1992 before we walked back out of the wild.
This story brings tears to my eyes. You did well paying your respect. I hope to one day visit Fairbanks, Alaska...just to leave a message for Chris' spirit.
Sometimes I wonder if he greets visitors..and also wonder if his parents could feel his presence when they visited the bus. I hope he said "I will see you guys soon, don't worry".
Mark Hazleton He was probably more like "shit they found me" 😂
Awesome Awesome Awesome video, thank you
Wow
is it known who drove this bus into the wild?
no it's not
Since it's a Magic Bus I'm sure it magicked itself up there...
i loved the movie and i love the story but god damn this guy is too much.
The*
EternalDv what the*?????
I would love to visit this one day. To pay my respects.
Too late. You wait 6 years and now they removed the bus.
So I saw. But, the bus will be back. Maybe not where it was originally was, but somewhere where we can still pay our respects.
@@Eis4Electric Hoping so. I've read that's the plan. It was on my bucket list, so I've amended it to still visit the bus, but wherever that might be. It's in Healy at the mo. The bus they used in the film is in Healy as well.
@@HC312 lol it's a fake. To not come in the real bus.
@Daz Hughes yes, so I see.
i am surprised people haven't stolen the stuff in the bus to sell on Ebay. did you see any graffiti Chris left?
I'm sure if anything was to be stolen, that some good soul would buy it just to take it back to the bus
Heard someone sold the speedometer on Ebay. Dont know when exactly but I hope the proceeds went to a good cause.
I mean…most of the stuff in the bud didn’t belong to him in the first place
If you truly want an adventure, create your own. Each man must create his own path. Create your own.
Wow, it was in a good shape by then but now it is wrecked by stupid people
holy shit really? are the signs okay?
DANKKrish yeah luckily
It's calming to hear, when did this happened?
Through the years
Struwex it's 20 miles out of a town with 1000 people 2 hours from Fairbanks and it's mainly used for hunting. I doubt people have destroyed it
Mccandless carved his fake alias name inside on the front of the bus as "Alexander Supertramp" hopefully you guys spotted it and for future wilderness explorers
What a story it is, if Chris walked 6 miles more upon the river he could cross the riverm it s sad such a young man.
sadly didn't have a map and the townspeople didn't know he was there either...sad indeed even sadder how people wanna villifie him
Carson Smith
Well he was at the end, he couldn't leave.
Albertus Jansen that’s tragic :(
Carson Smith he wanted to leave when he ran out of food. Maybe to find a new location or find civilization temporarily just to restock on supplies and food
@@carsonsmith8362 I think at the point of starving he wrote true happiness is shared with people so I think he would've left
this bus is one of three which were towed out some years ago by a mining company. They were not functional buses when left there...they were always meant as emergency shelters.
Are the others still there? Where are they?
They were brought out there for the miners to stay in and were hailed away when the project was completed this one was left because of a broken Axl and was used as a shelter for campers and hunters from them on .....them it became a place of pilgrimage because of the book (more so the movie) his “fans”trashed the place leaving anything they didn’t want to carry back out and the surrounding site was covered in garbage and trash .......I’m glade it’s not there anymore
We need to be prepared in living off the grid. He was my hero. He’s now free to explore the galaxies 🙏🏻.
Can't control my tears 😭
Thanks for this. Alexander Supertramp has become on of my favorite cultural idols.
No worries because the Magic Bus has been removed. Safety first.
Which stupid and reapectless person took the steering wheel and other stuff? In a video from 2010 its all there :(
+jonifun92 you what person took that stuff a person with no respect...
+jonifun92 the bus in the movie isnt the real bus its a fake one
Wasnt talking about the movie, never watched it
can't have nice things
wow the musics just torn my heart even more wow
Thanks for sharing this! I'm only just learning about Chris's story now in 2020.
to me that bus is truly a shrine
i don't know about a " beautiful place" but beautiful feeling maybe .
Great Video one of the best I've seen on UA-cam - Sorry to see that your video showed the plaque was missing that the McCandless family left to honor their son. I've personally been to the bus five-time over a six year period since 1998 and have to say that the message indirectly left by Chris has change my life and many others. David
Thank you for sharing this video! I think i never get into Alaska, a specially at this bus (national guard removed it from this place year ago), but i really love all story about Chris (book, movie). So it is big emotions to me look what Chris see to being in bus, sitting on this couch. Thank you Jake!
He wasnt smart for living off land- but set his mind to go north. Its getting out of your comfort zone- even if it kills you, its takin a chance. I get it
seems like the steering wheel was taken off by someone; I saw it on most of the other older videos on youtube. That's sad!
agreed. Ive got a very full bucket list of things I never thought I could do. One of them was to visit this bus, not a lot of people can claim they went there! Just ran the Chicago Marathon... hiked across the grand canyon. etc etc. Compose a great life and have no finish lines. No one is going out and living in the bus its just a great destination hike to connect with Chris and his idea to shed weakness and go for a great adventure.
@DucoDervish youre better off finding your own bus. I think youre missing the point terribly. People go to this place to connect with Chris and what he stood for. If you want to challenge yourself, do it on your own path.
Note: If you have to find out where it is by commenting on a UA-cam clip, you're probably not taking it seriously enough to make any sense.
"Who Dares Wins" British SAS motto. Rest in Peace Chris.
Lord Nikon
Didn't quite work in this situation.
I was there, two years before Chris...
It happened actually after two years on the road. Roaming around from Mexico City to Sonora, to Phoenix, to Grand Canyon, to Yosemite, thru Humboldt County and the Redwoods, thru Upqua´Oregon, to Yellowstone, to Glacier, thru BC, thru Yukon, to Haines and Kenai, to Fairbanks, to Talkeetna, and and finally up there, the footsteps of Denali... all by myself, all on my own, just with knife, compas, fire, and camping stuff... And I... me... also experienced the no-shit power of nature, fear of death, infinite smallness... a very strong experience... with a very cold and windy end-of-autumn rain storm that lead me lost in the tundra, close to a nervous mother bear and her cubs... very few blueberries and oatmeal left, almost none water tablets...
So... one grey cold day I couldn't hang more on and felt on my knees, and cried out loud my humility and awareness of the no-good-no-bad powers of nature, and cried out our stupid human egocentric believes towards the infinite greatness of nature, life-death and universe...
After a freezing night, the sun shined and a rainbow flew over the great Denali, right there, in front of me and my brothers caribou and moose... I knew it was time to go back to ol'good Mexico...
Then I head back, found my feather, found my song, found my love...
Now, 30 years after, I try to keep faithful to those visions, to those learnings... we humans are very wrong on our perceptions of life and nature, May love save the world from our ego...
I found love. I work love. I try to praise love thru living it.
Bless you Candle Chris
Blessings to all...
wow
Sleeping on the bed he died on would give me the creeps!
@plazzax theres a great vid that explains it on youtube - search history of the magic bus stampede trail. In short, they were going to build a highway across where the stampede trail is and a few buses were put out there for shelter for the prospectors. The highway was never built because it was to wet. Then there was an old mine and the bus was about halfway from the mine to Healy and was used to store supplies in World War II. In the 70's some trappers outfitted the bus.
@DucoDervish fly to anchorage alaska take the A3 to healy alaska take stampede road all the way to the end than follow the trail you will come across the bus in the middle of no where good luck i plan to go this june
Um espírito lindo, sem coincidir com as ideias deste mundo.
Thanks to Chris, life in the wild has a given name. Brave person, chosing to live each day on its edge, in a AVENTURA. Life in the wild.
How this bus get there, anyone having any idea?
It was dragged in behind a bulldozer by a construction company that was developing mining roads and used as shelter for the workers. There were two others I think that were removed but this was was left behind because the axle has broken and wasn’t able to be moved. Last year it was airlifted out by law enforcement and/or military because inexperienced hikers were dying and needing rescue while trying to find it.
This was the best video on here of the trip to the bus, Thank you!
Awesome guys ❤️‼️
After I watched a ROCKY MOVIE - I wrote that there is a Rocky in a ALL OF US ! After I watched INTO THE WILD - I must Use those very same words ! Such an Eye Opener - to know Your LIMITS ! This is BROTHERLY LOVE - Walk to Alaska !
His family turned his back on him, his real family was the people he met on his travels (assuming the book and movie are accurate) also how does saving money mean that you have it figured out? Money is completely irrelevant to living when all is said and done it is worth as much as you make it worth.
It was a real life story
To change me
Also teach me the value of life .
I was teared to see that movie
R.I.P young & wild heart
"Get busy living or get busy dying" The shawshank redemption quote :).. Nice one
Kind of weird to put it in a place made famous because a guy would rather hide out in a crappy old decrepit bus than live his life. I guess it is true though. He got busy dying.
I wonder how that bus got there, the stage of a so sad history, it is certainly the stage of others histories that happened before. This could give birth to another book.
Squille The author of the book says how the bus got there
చాలా మంచి అనుభవం ఈ సినిమా...😘😥😪😢 I'm see this movie 18- 07- 2021
@whereskim89 the hike was not overly difficult and June seemed like the best time to do it. Im 6'4 and the Tek was about to my belly at its deepest. In terms of the hike - its not difficult in terms of endurance or elevation - I live in the Cascades found those hikes to be a ton harder... its just difficult in terms of the river crossing and the desolation but Its doable if you prepare and have the will to want to go there. If I can help you just let me know. my email is jakeacton@gmail.com
Sorry, but no fucking way I'm sleeping on that bed!! Chris died on that bed???
I d like to visit too
People must be really pissed that they took the bus away without leaving any shelter of any variety on either shore.
😢
@jakeacton72 thanks for offering!! i will need some information for sure.....did you get the new book? im waiting for it!!! im so excited!
Great info in the comments about the story of the place & how the bus got there. It really had me stumped how a bus got there, and I just thought maybe a flood was responsible (it happens around here), but it would be extremely unlikely it would survive in that shape. So thanks for that. Take care all.
Very very nice made video!! Thank you so much! I wish for the human mankind that they will discover one day the beauty and uniqueness of the nature god gave us before it is too late and everything will be destroyed by the greed and ignorance from us! RIP Chris - maybe one day you gonna tell us your story through your eyes.......
I need (Want) to go to this place and spend the night maybe 2 nights!
I love this, I really do.
as I've been planning on traveling up there when i can accumulate enough funds for a few supplemental needs
Such an amazing story...
they removed it
correct.
this is so sad, he was very lonely.
great i think it's really a magic place..a magic place for a magic bus..thank u
That's fucking disgusting that he slept on that bed! When someone dies on a bed, their bodily fluids seep out and are absorbed by the mattress material. These dudes are a little too morbidly obsessed with this guy.
This is beautiful. Thank you.
Jake and Chad were inside each other in that bus
RIP CHRIS MCcandless
WOW from costa rica .. curiosity bus
very touching video, jake!
is the bus still in fairbanks?
yes it is
They took a helicopter out there and moved it the other day because too many people were needing to be rescued heading out to it and some even have died! Sucks it is moved now but I understand....
really cool video. Thanks for sharing.
@SundayMorningTired wow - thats really touching. thank you!
@jantanner1982 Thanks man - I really appreciate it!
cool
@jakeacton72 no offence, but what other ways are there for a 16 year old to find it, exept for google and youtube...
but in a way, you're right. I'm now planning to go to sweden with a friend, and make my own place to stay.
I will make a short film when i return, or perhaps my family will make one if i won't return ;)
take care
Wow. What a awesome story of one mans journey through life to find his soul and purpose. RIP Chris McCandless an inspiration to us all. I would love to go there and check out the bus. Is it still there now in 2014?
I wonder how the bus got there in the first place, who abandoned it and why, maybe they got stuck in the snow, or the vehicle broke down etc. makes me wonder...
@85valen If you need any help in planning let me know. Im happy to share any information from our planning and trek. jakeacton@gmail.com
It’s so sad that they have moved the bus to a more accessible location. Shitty people will most definitely disrespect it.
It looks like the bus is getting in bad shape now.Glad Chris found shelter there,sad he passed.
For the Movie they yoused another Bus.
that is correct.
The cool thing is that no one has ruined or destroyed the bus or it's contents..
Was the hike really hard? How high was the Teklanika river in June? Good video thanks
Why do people call it the "Magic bus"? What is so magic about it?
Might be 6 years late but probably the magic of how it kept so many people sheltered during winters and gave some sort of homey feeling in the middle of nowhere
Chris called it that so the name stuck
It looks like yeh magic school bus
Hahahaha. @oldwest lawdawg never even dawned on us but great of you to pass on your feedback. Noted! Take care friend.
On last visit was great to see a toilet has now been fitted inside the bus...
Amazing video , Thank you so much. I have a dream , some day I wan be hear )))
Nice bus, would love one to turn into a camper.
Great video. Thank you so much for sharing :)
@davidcarella64 The plaque is still there - there is a picture of it in the video. Not sure why you thought it was missing.
Thanks for the positive feedback - was a really powerful place.
They have now removed the bus by helicopter.
correct.. good work nate
Kinda sad to see it go from it’s resting place. Great vid btw
¿¿Porque no se llevaron el colectivo??
@Strap1205 agreed - big thumbs up
how in the world did the bus get out there in the first place? there must be a road leading to it?
was pulled out there in the 60s on a CAT vehicle (the bus wasnt actually used to be driven but as a shelter for the miners, thats why it has a stove and a bed) to work on a road leading out there, the roadwork was cancelled and has become the stampede trail as the bus was abandoned there and all works on the roads to be paved were cancelled
For me it's a mystery how the bus ended up right in the middle of nowhere.
great video!
to house construction workers while the road was going in. Yutan purchased three junked buses ,outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove, and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 caterpillar
Thanks for the video
Hey, i want to know from u, this bus how to go there?
its gone from the site now
Soul of nature
Hello! Iove the music playin on the video, what is it? Thanks
Michael Brook - Carte Noir ua-cam.com/video/pAJVLpnyWkw/v-deo.html
I was watching planking videos... how did I get here?
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I thougt he brought a rifle with him to hunt ?
Yes he had a .22
Love how disrespectful of his personal belongings he is
?????
What are you talking about?
where did the bus came from _ ?
hussein alatab it was one of three buses that were used for housing of laborers who were working on the stampede trail either mining or logging, I don’t remember which one...the project they worked on was unfinished but they left the bus there
How did that bus ever get so far into the wilderness anyway? anybody know?
Yutan purchased 3 junked buses, outfitted each with bunks and a simple barrel stove ,and skidded them into the wilderness behind a D-9 caterpillar
It's a magic bus, no further explanation needed.