Author's Note Question 2

     To say Chris McCandles was a "wacko" or "a narcississt who perished out of stupidity" would not be the correct usage of words. Yes, it was immature and ignorant of him to leave straight out of college and not to tell anyone he was leaving or where he was going, but in a spiritual sense, he wanted to be independent, on his own, and thriving with nature. The possibility of someone dying soon after going to survive in the nature with little but the two hands you were given at birth, it is greatly surprising that he even survived as long as 4 months. He is noble in that he would want to be one with nature and live life to the fullest using the purest resources he could. But at a level of stupidity, he did not tell anyone where he was going and how long he was going to be there. I feel that he might still be alive if someone was going to keep in contact with him.