Posted on 08/25/2013 1:13:17 PM PDT by bgill
Croom said he fears his son may have been inspired by the 2007 film "Into the Wild." The movie was inspired by the real-life events of Christopher McCandless, a young hiker who sought isolation in the Alaskan wilderness.
Authorities found Johnathan Croom's 2000 green Honda CR-V abandoned in Riddle, Ore., on Wednesday. The teen's wallet, photo ID, $200 cash and a book on outdoor survival tactics were left inside, leading police to believe he may not want to be found.
Croom was due back last weekend before his classes began at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Ariz., on Aug. 19,
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Has the Smiley face killer been ruled out?
Yet another”Failed Robbery”?
Rookies, one way or the other.
When I was a teen and living on the road, just wandering, my mother used to beg me to at least carry a piece of paper with my name on it so that if something happened, the law would know who I was, but identification was just too much of an anchor for me at the time.
Some teens and young men seek adventure in the extreme.
At about age 19 my young brother disappeared for about 2 years to Texas...he was from Washington...finally checked in after reported to police...he was fine...I think young men jyst need challenges w/o overbearing parents!
Riddle, OR is hardly into the wild. I worked at a nickel mine there and there is a copper mine being reclaimed in the surrounding mountains. The area has been extensively logged. The Rogue River wilderness some miles to the south would have been a better choice for Coast Range roughing it. The last I heard, there was a largely contained fire near Glendale south of Riddle. It may be out by now.
Of course it is all pretty lush, rainy forest and easy to get lost in.
Maybe they should be doing some DNA testing on Bear scat...
The family thinks he may be on a ‘go it alone’ venture.
A couple of other articles about the event;
That kid looks like a moron to me. He’s prob not going to make it.
I feel sorry for the father. If the kid could get past his adolescent days and a little older he prob would become wiser and more like his father. Too bad.
I can completely understand. There have been several times I was ready to do that during my teenaged years.
I started studying wilderness survival when I was 12, but it wasn’t until I was in my 20’s that I was able to test it and find out just how little I knew! Here’s hoping he has a back-up plan.
if he was going to go into the wilderness, he’d have taken the book on outdoor survival techniques and not left it in the car.
He must be out at Slab City , painting
Salvation Mountain.
That movie had a cool ending, but another one was better (can’t remember the name offhand). In the other movie, the other fool got himself stuck in the middle of nowhere, Alaska, eating mouse stew.
My son took off for 4 months to live on the road when he was 19. He survived but his health suffered on his return. He would email me from the library of the nearest town every week to 10 days to let me know he was still alive, which I really appreciated.
If that's the case, he was kinda stupid to leave the Outdoor Survival book behind.
Did he watch the end of the film?
My wife and I were there last weekend and drove up the road toward Glendale until we were stopped by two Army National Guardsmen because of the fire. As we were coming back to Riddle we saw two elderly folks standing near their car with both on the cell phone. Seems they live further up the canyon and had to drive 9 miles to get cell phone service. I remember when Hannah Nickel opened the mine.
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