Considering everything you know about McCandless—his journey, his character, his ideas—do you think that he was capable of trashing these cabins? After reading this book, do you know McCandless well enough to know whether or not he would do this?

“It was obviously not the work of a bear,” Atkinson reports. “I’m a bear technician,
so I know what bear damage looks like. This looked like somebody had gone at
the cabins with a claw hammer and bashed everything in sight. From the size of
the fireweed growing up through mattresses that had been tossed outside, it was
clear that the vandalism had occurred many weeks earlier.”