Woman dies while trying to reach ‘Into the Wild’ bus in Alaska

Reuters ^ | July 26, 2019 | Yereth Rosen

[ontap]

Reminds me of another not so wise person who thought he was friends with grizzly bears....until one ate him and his girlfriend!!!

[BradyLS]

This is terrible. Folks are lost to flood waters over normally dry creek beds every spring here in Texas. Folks think they’re safe in their SUVs and the rest is history. Year after year. Not sure how to cross a swift-flowing river? Unless your life depends on it, don’t try.

On the other hand, you could lose your life to “teens” with the cops and help just around the corner. Just have some situational awareness. Avoid dangers.

[bert]

We are campers, former backpackers even. I bought a Sprinter and converted it into an RV......... packing light. As backpackers, we were able to eliminate the frills and excesses of available RV's.

In essence, we backpack in our van that is fully equipped and includes a diesel engine that gets 23 mpg.

Our first major trip was north to Alaska. We were two months on the road and traveled all over including making the 250 mile trip on mostly dirt roads to the Arctic circle. We returmes through Canada and a side trip again of afew hundred miles on dirt roads north to Fort Simpson on the Mckinsie river.

There is an excellent guide book available that guides you from place to place literally mile by mile. It makes navigation a snap, even with a GPS.

Since that 13,000 mile journey, we have traversed the country north to south following the Great River Road, a marked trail, south from Lake Itaska Minnesota, along the Mississippi river to the end of the road at Venice Lousianna. That is a fabulous trip and is America at it's very best.

Then, we picked up the Butterfield Trail in Memphis and followed it to the Wells Fargo Head Quarters in San Francisco. The Butterfield trail is named for the holder of the contract for the first transcontinental US Mail contract. It crosses Arkansas, Oklahoma, 900 miles across central Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Califirnia and up to San Francisco. It to passes through the genuine America we yearn for. The principles were Mr Butterfield who owned a bank called American Express and his counterpart at Wells Fargo. The growth of their business demanded actual documents to be transmitted by the mail. The delivery was guranteed in 23 days and it was alwas on time.

We like National Historical Trails and have traversed the Santa Fe Trail, The Natchez Trace and the Overmountain Victory Trail.

[Caipirabob]

Chauncey, we live next to Camelback mountain, I mean right in the heart of the valley and even with the temperatures as high as 115 here in the summer, there are always tourists and others hiking up on the heat (in the 100s by 9AM) and requiring rescue. This happens at least once a week. Often they bring down bodies. It’s scary how fast what appears to be a small problem can go downhill.

[sheana]

When hubby and I met he was huge into the outdoors. Mountain climbing, hiking, camping, etc. He’d take off by himself with nothing but a backpack and stay out in the woods for a week at a time. I firmly told him my idea of camping was a hotel with no room service. lol He still did his thing and I happily stayed home.

[unread]

"My idea of roughing it is 4 star instead of 5 star hotels." :)

I'm reminded of the seen in the movie "Crocodile Dundee", where she takes him to the fancy hotel in New York and he says "Well, it's a little rough, but I'll manage." :)

[Grampa Dave]

“My idea of roughing it is 4 star instead of 5 star hotels :)”

You and my wife might be related.

When I turned 65, I started agreeing with her.

[PGR88]

My idea of roughing it is 4 star instead of 5 star hotels :)

I once stayed at a friends house/cabin in the woods, and had only cheap, single-ply toilet paper. It was awful!

[hal ogen]

“Nature “ ultimately will kill all of us...one way or another. You never know .

[hal ogen]

Apparently , she was swept away by the swift running water.

[hal ogen]

Ours is having to have a queen size bed rather than a king size bed . Oh, the humanity ! !!

[Gay State Conservative]

I once had a fantasy about driving the Dalton Highway. But after having seen a couple of videos on it I’ve decided to vacation in Sarasota instead.

[Gigantor]

She died doing what she loved.

[Redwood71]

“Alaska is a beautiful, scary place that can mindlessly kill the unwary in seconds.”

Spent a year up there everywhere from Nome in the west to the Kenai in the east, and the one thing I learned was to respect the threats of living there. Any time you go into the wild for recreation, you better know what you are doing and be prepared to possibly alter your way of going. Alaska is the last frontier and a lot of it is still in the 1890’s Klondike thought process even in the civilized parts. They should have had a local with them.

rwood

[moovova]

"Lately we’ve been getting cabins at State Parks."

SC has a ton of those, along with a very sophisticated online reservation system. Cabins are usually booked months out. Most are built around lakes.

[elteemike]

In my early 20s I spent a lot of time in the Alaska bush and reached the conclusion that nature isn’t so much trying to kill me, but that it’s at best indifferent to me living or dying...

In the wild places humans enter the food chain in ways not experienced by urban dwellers...One may do “the stupid” over and over and get away with it, until the one time conditions combine in the wrong way to take your life...And become fodder for scavenging critters; your remains never to be found...

Getting caught up in the breathtaking beauty and failure to pay attention just once is often enough...

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Caipirabob, I call it the “disneyland” syndrome. People think it’s one big adventure park, just like they see on TV.

[zeestephen]

I assume the water temperature was frigid?

Most people do not realize that when the human body is suddenly drenched with freezing water you involuntarily and repeatedly gasp for air.

Even a healthy strong swimmer is going to be in deep trouble if he starts inhaling water.

[bert]

I “saved” just such a woman who slid down the mountain stream rock slide at Slick Rock NC.

She went totally under and was completely out of it and totally lost her bearings. I managed to hold her up long enough to gain control of her self

The water there was cold...... 50 or so and not Alaska cold

[Rad_J]

I spend far too much money on my house to go out and pretend I am homeless.