Fairbanks Bus 142. Virtually unheard of to anyone outside the state of alaska before krakauer s article in outside magazine the trail has seen a vast increase in traffic since the release of sean penn s film in 2007. The yutan construction company in 1960 brought several buses to the trail for the construction workers to use for shelter in the remote location.
A national guard chinook helicopter lifts fairbanks bus. However to see the real mccandless shelter hikers had to walk for 30 kilometers. The bus began receiving international attention.
Fairbanks bus 142 made famous by the book and film into the wild sits at an interim staging point during it removal by the alaska army national guard from the stampede trail in alaska on june 18 2020.
An alaska army national guard ch 47 chinook helicopter airlifted the bus also known as the fairbanks bus 142 and the magic bus on thursday afternoon the alaska national guard said. The rusting exterior of fairbanks city transit system bus 142 an abandoned 1946 international harvester k 5 parked along alaska s stampede trail. Fairbanks bus 142 made famous by the book and film into the wild sits at an interim staging point during it removal by the alaska army national guard from the stampede trail in alaska on june 18 2020. The bus began receiving international attention.