This chapter, the heart of Into the Wild, reconstructs McCandless's climactic Alaska adventure, following him into the bush and observing his admirable survival skills. Lonely, scared." McCandless does not know - because he refused to obtain a map of the area - that the river is passable only one mile upstream. He returns to the bus, chastened, and writes in his journal, "Disaster.
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Moreover, the river itself, knee-deep at winter's end, has become a raging torrent - and McCandless is a weak swimmer.
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When he first crossed the same area in April, the series of beaver ponds leading up to the Teklanika River had been frozen over and were easy enough to traverse now, in July, these same beaver ponds have melted. Halfway back to the road, he discovers a three-acre lake in his way. McCandless lists the preparations necessary for leaving the bus, bringing his "final and greatest adventure" to a close. McCandless must leave the moose carcass for the wolves, which leaves him feeling deeply guilty. But he preserves the meat incorrectly, with the result that it becomes infested with vermin and therefore inedible. He spends days trying to cure its meat so he can consume every part of the moose. On June 9, 1992, McCandless kills a moose, and he is so proud of this feat that he takes a photo of the carcass. He devours local lingonberries and rose hips and climbs a nearby butte. After about a month, though, McCandless is routinely shooting and eating squirrels, porcupines, and spruce grouses. Tramping through the bush, McCandless soon discovers the abandoned bus along the Sushana River and celebrates the discovery by writing in his journal "Magic Bus Day." At first, he has some difficulty killing small game. On April 28, 1992, McCandless hitches the ride with Jim Gallien that will bring him there. He leaves the university campus and pitches his tent on frozen ground not far from the road that will take him to the Stampede Trail.
22-caliber Remington) he has located in the classifieds. He finds a field guide to the area's edible plants, writes postcards to Wayne Westerberg and Jan Burres, and buys a used gun (a semiautomatic. McCandless spends two days and three nights around Fairbanks, mostly at the university. He agrees to send Stuckey a letter when he returns from Alaska but shrugs off Stuckey's suggestion that he call his parents to let them know where he is.
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