Marco Hoffman Mrs. Flores English 12 6 March 2023 Into the Wild Final Summative Essay The Alaskan Bush, many wouldn’t even consider trying to travel in it or even so much as live in it, Chris McCandless though, he was all for it. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer tells a story about a man named Chris McCandless whose goal is to travel to Alaska, reside in the bush, and live off the land. A small 10 pound bag of rice, a.22 caliber rifle which was not rated to hunt game out in that region, a camera, and a guide to which plants are edible. A logical person wouldn’t think this was nearly enough to survive in the mountains of Washington where it gets to -30 degrees heit let alone the Alaskan wilderness where it gets to about -80 degrees heit, but Chris McCandless thought he would be more than …show more content…
Take Chris’ trip to Mexico. For example, he impulsively bought an aluminum canoe in Topock, Arizona, where he traveled through the Colorado River and illegally crossed the border into Mexico. His plan here was to travel to the Gulf of California and ultimately get to the Pacific Ocean. “He made a brief excursion up the Bill Williams River, a tributary of the Colorado, then continued downstream through the Colorado River Indian Reservation, the Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge. He drifted past saguaros and alkali flats, camped beneath escarpments of naked Precambrian stone” (Krakauer 33). When he reaches the Morales Dam, he realizes he can’t get to the Gulf of California from there, so he gets a ride from some duck hunters who take him straight to his destination. While in the Gulf of California, a storm rolls in and threatens to capsize the flimsy aluminum canoe. Thankfully he was able to beach the canoe and shortly after he set foot to leave Mexico and continue his leather tramp to South