The Possible Removal of Bus 142

As motivation, often voyagers start off their trek by visiting bus 142 where McCandless ended his journey. Bus 142 has gained popularity through out the years marking as thee memorial of Chris McCandless. Although the memorial had maintained popularity it has also been a target of theft to this day. There had been items reported stolen and possibly being sold on Ebay such as pieces of McCandless mattress, the instrument panel, and even Chris's boots; the pair of boots had been reported switched with another pair. A man was prosecuted for the stolen items but the pair of boots still remains questionable. Not only was theft a problem arising for park rescuers but also visitors of the memorial were beginning to cause a bit to much trouble.As Chris McCandless had such influences like Gene Rossellini and Everett Ruess, there were pilgrimers that began to follow McCandless. These voyagers were planning to follow McCandless almost exactly. The problem with park rescuers was that voyagers may had been following him too exact; rescuers did not want to deal with another death. Even the town of Healy which is about 25 miles from the memorial wanted to remove the bus to another location, or if the bus was too fragile to move even tear it down. The town felt there had been too much of a fuss and bother over the bus.