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Graduates from Emory
Graduate -
Period: to
Journey to Alaska
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Sends final transcript of grades to parents
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Abandons yellow datsun at Detrital Wash
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Hikes around Lake Mead
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Gets picked up by Janes Burres and her boyfriend Bob.
Camps with them in Orick Beach for a week then leaves. -
Receives a ticket for hitchhiking
Sends ticket to parents. His parents lock for him in Atlanta and find out he's been gone for 5 weeks -
Wayne Westerberg picks Mccandless up from Cut Banks
He takes him to Carthage, South Dakota. He starts to work at the grain elevator. -
Park ranger finds datsun
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Found a ride witha long haul trucker
Arrives in Topock, Arizona -
Finds a canoe
Paddles down the colorado river making his way to the Gulf of California -
Arrives in Yuma
sends a postcard to Wayne. -
Reaches Mexican border
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Gets picked up by duck hunters
They take him to El Gofo de Santa Clara -
Abandons Canoe in El Gofo de Santa Clara
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Arrives at U.S border
Tries to sneak in but, he gets caught and spends one day in jail -
Arrives in Los Angeles to get an ID
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Camps at bottom ofthe Grand Canyon
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Arrives back in Detrital Wash
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Buries backpack and enters Las Vegas
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Leaves Las Vegas
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Stays on Oregon coast
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Hitchhikes to California
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Jan and Bob visit Mccandless
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Meets Ron Franz
Catches a ride to Omigod Hot Springs -
Franz drops him off in San Diego
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Franz picks up from Coachella
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Franz drops Mccandless off in Grand Junction, Colorado
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Arrives back in Carthage
Works back at Wayne's grain elevator -
Leaves Carthage, heads to Alaska
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Crossed Canadian border
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Arrives in Liard Hotsprings
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Meets Gaylord Stuckey
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Stuckey and McCandless arrive in Fair Banks
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Meets Jim Gallien
Gives Mccandless a ride to Stampede Trail. -
Sees Mt. Mckinley
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Finds an old abandoned bus
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Killed and ate a spruce grouse
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Caught a small squirrel
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Crown falls off his molars
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Killed a moose and took a picture with it
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Starts to eat moose
By the 14th maggots start to form. -
Took a 20 mile hike back to the bus
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100th day in Alaska
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Wrote a S.O.S note hoping somebody would find it
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Mccandless dies from starvation
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Moose hunters and hikers find Mccandless' note and decomposed body
