Into the Wild 1

My first (well actually 2nd) trip trying to make it back to the bus with the famous river crossing sequence.

Check out the story behind it:
http://www.yotatech.com/showthread.php?t=70633

and the sequel:

Here is the story:

This was my second attempt to make it to "the bus" out on the stampede trail near Healy, AK yesterday 10/30. This trip was about 15 miles back into the woods, across several rivers with snow and ice as you can see.
When I tried to make it a month ago I got stopped about 7 miles in becuase of deep mud and no trees to winch to.
This time, I made it over the mud, but I did break through the ice in several places that required a pull to get me out. The river was slightly deeper than it looked but my tacoma made it across with no problems (time to check all the lubes and whatnot). I ended up turning around about 2 miles from the bus because the trail was getting quite narrow and I didn't know exactly where it was. Maybe I'll have a chance to go back and try it next weekend. Anybody interested?
Enjoy the pictures; they are all self taken as I was traveling solo (crazy I know, but I was ready for a long hike)

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/kc659/...c659/my_photos

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• 4x4
• tacoma
• bus
• into
• the
• wild
• winter
• snow
• water
• healy
• alaska
• denali
• epic
• mccandless
• alex
• supertramp

[isapien]

How fortunate for you there were trails for your "deep" experience.

[mtcaving]

@isapien Yeah, it's pretty spiffy. I even get internet access through my phone for the first part.

[filip9912]

i dont understand your videos ...

[mtcaving]

@filip9912

Neither do I, a good part of the time I'm making them. And not unoften, for a great deal of time later.

[dwall199]

where is this at, i would like to test my 4x4 out in that terrain in the near future.

[mtcaving]

Up in the middle of nowhere Alaska

[stumptacular]

i want to go to alaska... SO bad... You can buy lakefront land in alaska on ebay for CHEAP. I wonder how much dough I would need to build ANYTHING habitable on a lake in sw alaska. eat fish poached on a campfire daily... people pay THOUSANDS a week just to fish there... and you can buy the land on ebay its just crazy... Who wants to go???

[iquitfacebook]

You are some wild adventurer!!! thats awesome! :)

[isapien]

I'm sorry.. you give yourself way too much credit in this video.. ooh big bad adventurer. Try it with a backpack and a pair of boots tell me how cool you are.

[fred5155]

@mtcaving u r insane lol. wish i could see that road.

[fred5155]

@stumptacular you are right . i checked ebay found 40 acres for $60,000. best part is the land is close to chris mcandless bus. wish i had the $ lol

[roflcopterszz]

your videos are really awesome man, i enjoy watching all of them. thanks for the inspiration to visit the bus. i think i will one day

[darlingone1000]

@mountianbikeer i know that is right i am with u !

[gused2000]

I believe this is near Fairbanks Alaska? This guy is safe. He knows what he is doing, you can tell by the trucks ability, his driving, and the fact that there is a winch on his truck. Besides, the trail looks like it has been groomed by a snow cat. I thought it would be snowed in. There would be so much snow up their if not. It would be hard for a lot of short tracked snowmobiles to make it up there.