Chris McCandless Journey

By scrippstt

  • Colorado river buys canoe decides to paddle to Gulf of CA

    Chris buys a canoe and decides to "paddle it down the Colorado River to the Gulf of California, nearly four hundred miles to the south, across the border with Mexico (Krakauer, 32)".
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    Chapter 4 of Into the Wild

    Chris McCandless decides to navigate the Colorado River

  • Gets some supplies in Yuma and sends Westerberg a postcard

    "Please thank Kevin for all the clothes he gave me, I would have froze to death without them" (Krakauer, 33).

  • Morelos Dam, Mexican border & canals

    "Worried that he would be denied entry because he was carrying no identification, He sneaked into Mexico by paddling through the dam's open floodgates and shooting the spillway below" (Krakauer, 34).

  • Carried out to sea

    "In great frustration, he screams and beats canoe with oar" (Krakauer, 36)

  • Abandons boat and headsback to U.S.

    "...subsisting on marine life and five pounds of rice (Krakauer, 36).

  • Caught at border and jailed

    "...spends a night in jail before concocting a story that sprang him from the slammer" (Krakauer, 36)

  • Chris turns 23 years old

    "It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you" (Karakauer, 37).