October 28, 1990: In Needles, California, reaches the Colorado River. October 1990: McCandless's Datsun is discovered by a park ranger.

In Cut Bank, Montana, meets Wayne Westerberg.ДЄugust 1990: McCandless's parents drive to Atlanta looking for their son and discover that his apartment was vacated five weeks earlier.ДЄugust 10, 1990: Receives a ticket for hitchhiking in Willow Creek, California. Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob discover McCandless by the side of the road and befriend him. Travels to the Cascade mountains, across the lava beds of the Columbia River basin, and across the Idaho panhandle. JulyвЂ“August 1990: Hitchhikes to California's Lake Tahoe, then hikes into the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Loads his belongings into his backpack and sets out on foot. July 10, 1990: Abandons his car after it is damaged by a flash flood. July 6, 1990:В Arrives at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada. McCandless's family will never hear from him again. June 1990:В Mails his final college transcript and a brief note to his parents' home in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He tells his parents that he is going to spend the summer traveling in his car, a used yellow Datsun. May 12, 1990:В Christopher Johnson McCandless graduates from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. For the sake of clarity, this timeline rearranges the book's episodes in the order in which they occurred, rather than the order in which they appear in Into the Wild. Because author Jon Krakauer presents the events of Into the WildВ out of chronological order, establishing what happened when can challenge the reader.

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