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Fairbanks bus 142 removed

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Fairbanks bus 142 removed
on: June 20, 2020, 01:32:35 PM
The magic bus has been removed due to too many people getting into difficulties trying to get to it, just as Chris was unprepared for the wilderness i think there will be just as many unprepared tourists as before but now going to see where the bus was, i don't think they will stop going :dunno:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/alaska-into-the-wild-bus-removed-trnd/index.html
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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #1 on: June 20, 2020, 03:48:35 PM
I think they are planning on displaying it outside a info center so maybe people won't go looking for it in the wild and needing rescue or worse.

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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #2 on: June 20, 2020, 08:50:38 PM
That would probably be a good thing, i'm pretty sure there is a fake bus at an info center or coffee shop type thing somewhere nearby, they may swap it over for the real one  :tu:
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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #3 on: June 20, 2020, 09:02:21 PM
Let's hope people find out and not go out looking for it. Read that there has been several unprepared hikers that have died looking for it and many more needed rescue so keeping it easily accessible would be the best solution :tu:

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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #4 on: June 21, 2020, 12:51:30 PM
I think what people have problems with are the two river crossings,even if they keep it on the same trail but below the first river would work probably
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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #5 on: June 21, 2020, 01:15:22 PM
Let's hope people find out and not go out looking for it. Read that there has been several unprepared hikers that have died looking for it and many more needed rescue so keeping it easily accessible would be the best solution :tu:

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How was the bus originally taken to the middle of nowhere to begin with? :think: :think:


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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #6 on: June 21, 2020, 01:28:36 PM
There were some buses used as accommodation for work crews working on upgrading the trail for a mine camp further up, they were dragged in by a dozer and in 1961 when they finished they dragged the buses back out but they had some sort of mechanical problem with bus 142 so they left it at the side for a shelter for hunters etc  :tu:
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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #7 on: June 21, 2020, 01:34:26 PM
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Reply #8 on: June 21, 2020, 01:40:26 PM
There were some buses used as accommodation for work crews working on upgrading the trail for a mine camp further up, they were dragged in by a dozer and in 1961 when they finished they dragged the buses back out but they had some sort of mechanical problem with bus 142 so they left it at the side for a shelter for hunters etc  :tu:

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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #9 on: June 22, 2020, 09:05:10 PM
Nah, it's just a story i took an interest in years ago so i asked myself the same question  :tu:

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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #10 on: June 26, 2020, 11:47:26 AM
Also we have a member here with the username Magic Bus who happens to be named Chris :D He was very active several years ago but he hasn't posted in the last couple years :-\ Great guy and he is from the UK :cheers:


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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #11 on: June 26, 2020, 03:43:07 PM
"Hey, you heard to story about the guy who was woefully unprepared and died in the wilderness next to a bus?  Wanna go see it?"

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Re: Fairbanks bus 142 removed
Reply #12 on: June 26, 2020, 05:14:05 PM
 :iagree: :doh: :rofl:


 

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