Into the Wild - 2nd hour

By hcerutti

  • Everett Ruess - Graduation from HighSchool --> Davis Gulch

    Everett Ruess recieves his high school diploma and writes a letter to his family informing him of his new name (1931)
    Everett Ruess disappeares into the Gulch Canyon.
    3 months after leaving Escalante, all of Everett's mail starts getting forwarded to his parents; he was believed to be dead

  • Chris McCandless is born

  • John Krakauer climbs devils thumb and explained his complicated relationship with his father

  • Chris graduated high school

  • Chris worked for his parents over the summer

  • Chris took a prolonged trip over the summer

  • Chris graduated from college

  • Westerberg is at the bar having a drink in remembrance of Chris

  • Chris abandons his Datsun

  • Chris stopped taking pictures and stopped keeping a journal

  • Chris got a job at McDonalds

  • Franz gives Chris a ride and drops him off at the San Diego Waterfront

  • Alex finally leaves Carthage to head to Alaska

  • McCandless appears at Wayne Westerberg's grain elevator in Carthage, South Dakota, ready to work. He works there for 4 weeks

  • Chris's parents went into bus that Chris died in

  • Chris can't cross river

  • Stuckey picks him up and takes him to Whitehorse, Canada.

  • Chris arrives @ Fairbanks

  • Jim Gallien takes Chris McCandless to the stampede trail

  • Chris shoots and kills the moose - eats it

  • the story of a dead young hiker, McCandless, is published in the NYT.

  • Step Brother & Carine and then Chris's parents lean that Chris died

  • Carine and then Chris

  • Carine says that she still cries about Chris/misses him daily

  • Into the Wild

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