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Christopher McCandless' parents discover that he is going to spend the summer traveling in his Datsun after graduating from a university in Atlanta, Georgia.
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He is just beginning his adventure in the wild. He starts in Nevada.
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He goes to California's Lake Tahoe, then hikes into the Sierra Nevada mountains. He travels to the Cascade mountains, across the lava beds of the Columbia River basin, and across the Idaho panhandle.
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McCandless gets discovered by Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob on the side of the road and befriend him. He also meets Wayne Westerberg In Cut Bank, Montana.
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They go to Atlanta looking for their son and discover that his apartment was vacated five weeks earlier.
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He got a ticket for hitchhiking in Willow Creek, California.
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McCandless's Datsun got discovered by a park ranger
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In Needles, California, he reaches the Colorado River. Walks south through the desert, arriving in Topock, Arizona.
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Canoes on the Colorado River, traveled through Lake Havasu, the Bill Williams River, the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, and the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground.
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The private investigator that was employed by McCandless's parents discovers he donated $24,000 to OXFAM.
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He reaches the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border.
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He realizes that he will not reach the Gulf of California traveling this route, and meets duck hunters who drive him there.
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McCandless pulls his canoe out of the water and sets up camp on the edge of a desolate plateau.
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Seeking refuge from high winds, discovers a cave on the face of a bluff, where he stays for 10 days.
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Back in his canoe, encounters a violent storm that almost drowns him.
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He left his canoe in El Golfo de Santa Clara, and started wandering northward.
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McCandless is caught by U.S. Immigration officials when he tries to slip back into the country from Mexico. Spends one night in jail.
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He travels to Houston and then to the Pacific coast.
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He applies for an ID and a job in Los Angeles, then changes his mind and returns to the road.
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He camps at the bottom of the Grand Canyon with a young German couple he met.
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Get the few belongings that he buried in the sand when he abandoned his Datsun.
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McCandless buries his backpack and hitchhikes into Las Vegas.
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McCandless packs up and Leaves Las Vegas.
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He is possibly living in coastal Oregon. He sends a postcard to Jan Burres complaining about the interminable fog and rain.
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He arrives in Bullhead City, Arizona, where he works for two months at McDonald's and lives in an empty RV.
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He unexpectedly appears at Burress's campsite at The Slabs campground in Niland.
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McCandless meets Ronald Franz while hitchhiking near California's Salton Sea.
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He gets dropped by Franz at the San Diego waterfront. He also mails Jan Burres a postcard telling her that he is living in San Diego.
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Sends postcards to Burres and Franz from Seattle.
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He calls Franz from Coachella, California
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McCandless spends one night at Franz's house.
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Franz drives him to Grand Junction, Colorado.
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He works at Wayne Westerberg's grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota.
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He Leaves Carthage, bound for Alaska.
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He stops at Liard Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada,
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Waking down the highway, he is picked up by Jim Gallien who brings McCandless to the Stampede Trail.
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McCandless sees Mt. McKinley.
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Finds an old bus beside the Sushana River. Decides to stay for a while, taking advantage of the bus's ". . . crude comforts."
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McCandless prepares his backpack and sets out on the 20-mile hike back to the road.
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McCandless arrives back at the bus.
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He posts an S.O.S. note on the bus door.
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McCandless dies, apparently of starvation, and is in his sleeping bag in the bus along the Sushana River in Alaska.
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Hikers and hunters discover McCandless's S.O.S. note, then his body in the bus.