It is a truth not universally acknowledged that the line between totally hardcore and dead by lack of preparedness can be very, very fine.

There is a McCandless cult, basically, for whom McCandless is their Wilderness Messiah and how dare anyone speak ill of him. (These are the people who tend to show up at the bus on pilgrimages and then need to be rescued. At one point the state was either going to remove the schoolbus, or had already done it -- I forget how that turned out -- so they could stop sending helicopters out there to rescue lost hikers.)

Ha ha ha, OMG. Why am I not surprised...