Car in woods

Can't begin to imagine what this old (Ford?) is doing in the dense forest of SE Alaska, just

outside Juneau. Well, actually I can: from its state of decay it doesn't appear to have had

an accident, but it's entirely possible that, had it been there since, say, the 1920s when

this car might have been a fashionable model, that the forest has since grown up around

it. Much of SE Alaska was under ice until very recently, and since freed from it, the land

has quickly been regenerated by plant and animal species. So, a young lad does a bit of

off-roading in a second-hand jalopy and breaks down. He walks to the nearest road for a

lift back to Juneau, and, being a typical yoof, doesn't get round to repairing the car and

eventually can't be bothered - he abandons it. 60 years later, a bunch of Brits and their

Alaskan friend are gathering blueberries - conscious that bears are very fond of blueberries

too - and chance upon the wreck, the engine sunk through the frame but the seats still

intact. But before any further investigation becomes possible, there's some rustling in the

bushes that isn't one of us...

Can't begin to imagine what this old (Ford?) is doing in the dense forest of SE Alaska, just outside

Juneau. Well, actually I can: from its state of decay it doesn't appear to have had an accident,

but it's entirely possible that, had it been there since, say, the 1920s when this car might have

been a fashionable model, that the forest has since grown up around it. Much of SE Alaska was

under ice until very recently, and since freed from it, the land has quickly been regenerated by

plant and animal species. So, a young lad does a bit of off-roading in a second-hand jalopy and

breaks down. He walks to the nearest road for a lift back to Juneau, and, being a typical yoof,

doesn't get round to repairing the car and eventually can't be bothered - he abandons it. 60 years

later, a bunch of Brits and their Alaskan friend are gathering blueberries - conscious that bears are

very fond of blueberries too - and chance upon the wreck, the engine sunk through the frame but

the seats still intact. But before any further investigation becomes possible, there's some rustling in

the bushes that isn't one of us...

Forest junkyard