Into the Wild

By jslesarchik

  • Graduates from Emory University

    Chapter 3 pg 20

  • Chris sends his last letter to his parents

    pg 21

  • Chris arrives at Lake Mead

    Chap 4 pg 27

  • Chris abandons his Datsun at Lake Mead

    Sets out on foot
    Chapter 4, pg 29

  • Chris hitches a ride with Crazy Ernie to California

    Chap 4 pg 30

  • Chris gets a hitchhiking ticket, gets sent to his parents

    Parents hire a private investigator to find him
    chapter 4, pg 31

  • Chris meets Jan and Bob Burres in Orick, CA

    Chap 4 pg 30

  • Wayne Westerberg meets Chris McCandles

    pg 16

  • Park Ranger Bud Walsh finds Chris's Datsun at Lake Mead

    Chapter 4 pg 26

  • Wayne Westerberg goes to jail

    pg 19

  • Chris leaves Carthage, SD

    pg 19

  • Hitches a ride to Needles, California, walks to Topock AZ and buys a canoe

    chap 4 pg 32

  • Chris paddles through Yuma and sends postcard to Westerberg

    chap 4 pg 33
  • Period: to

    Chris reaches Morelos Dam and Mexican boarder and gets lost trying to find the sea

    chap 4 pg 35
  • Period: to

    Chris sets up camp on a plateau until he's forced out by weather

    chap 4 pg 36

  • Chris gets caught in a storm in his canoe

    chap 4 pg 36

  • Chris abandons his canoe on the beach of El Golfo de Santa Clara

    chap 4 pg 36

  • Chris returns to the US and spends a night in jail for having no ID

    chap 4 pg 36

  • Chris goes to LA to get an ID

    chap 4 pg 37

  • Chris camps in the Grand Canyon with Thomas and Karin, a young German couple

    chap 4 pg 37

  • Chris returns to Detrital Wash to get his belongings he buried there

    chap 4 pg 37
  • Period: to

    Chris buries his backpack and goes to Las Vegas to get a job

    chap 4 pg 37
  • Period: to

    Chris spent 2 months around Astoria, Oregon

    Chap 5 pg 39

  • Chris gets a job at McDonalds in Bullhead City, AZ

    Lives in Charlie's trailer Chap 5 pg 39

  • Chris writes a letter to Jan and Bob about their plans to visit him

    Chap 5 pg 42

  • Chris shows up at Jan and Bob's campsite in the Slabs in Niland, CA

    Chap 5 pg 43

  • Chris leaves Niland to live in Anza-Borrego Desert Park in Salton City, CA

    Chap 5 pg 49

  • Chris meets Ron Frantz

    Chap 5 pg 49

  • Chris tells Frantz he's going to San Diego

    Frantz gives him a ride Chap 5 pg 52

  • Chris turns 24

    Chap 5 pg 53

  • Chris sends postcard to Jan Burres

    contemplates going back to SD, plans to leave for Alaska no later than May 1 Chap 5 pg 53

  • Chris sends postcard to Jan about being a hobo in Seattle

    had been riding trains Chapter 5 pg 53

  • Frantz gets Chris out of jail in Coachella CA and takes him to Grand Junction CO

    chap 5 pg 54

  • Frantz drops off Chris at Grand Junction

    chap 5 pg 55

  • Chris writes long letter to Frantz urging him to travel and live outside

    which he does Chap 5 pg 56

  • Sent postcard to Wayne Westerberg

    Epigram of Chapter 1. Chris's final goodbye to Wayne

  • Jim Gallien picks up Chris in Fairbanks Alaska, drops him off at Stampede Trail

    End of Chapter 1

  • Graffiti on Wood at Bus

    "Jack London is King
    Alexander Supertramp
    May 1992
    Graffito Carved into a piece of wood discovered at the site of Chris McCandles's death"
    pg 9

  • McCandle's body is found

    Chapter 2