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I read Into the wild when I was at McCandless' age and I totally understood him. With hindside though I think he did a lot of really stupid things. No maps, no winter coat, killing a moose without the means to preserve the flesh and believing you're better then the rest of the world. But then I think of myself on my first hike north of Vancouver on the Howe Sound Crest trail. It was June but it was misty and there remained so much snow that I quickly got lost in a white out. I carried too much in my backpack and lost my canteen as I accidently pushed it over a cliff while resting. Only by retracing my steps in the snow did I find a way out but I was wet, cold, covered in mud and felt totally miserable.