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References/Trivia

The story title may be a reference to the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, which tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
When Martin and Lisa discuss the hardships the pioneers endured, Lisa mentions the Donner Party's having had to resort to cannibalism in order to survive.
When Bart and Milhouse pooh-pooh Lisa's mention of the Donner Party, Lisa tells Martin to ignore them, as "They think that 'The Old West' is an actor who played Batman on TV", a reference to Adam West.
Martin tells Lisa not to stoop to the level of the Philistines (referring to Bart and Milhouse). In the Bible, the Philistines were the most prominent enemy of the nation of Israel, but Martin is using "Philistine" in its modern sense, a term for an uncultured person.
The bear statue with the sign admonishing visitors to not smoke in the woods ("Keep your butts out of the forest") resembles Smokey Bear.
After Bart and Milhouse get lost, they get hungry and Bart recalls other accounts of cannibalism, including "those rugby players whose plane crashed in the Andes".
The story's plotline is reminiscent of the M*A*S*H television episode "They Call the Wind Korea", where Winchester and Klinger get lost in a windstorm and endure a night stopped on the road. The next morning, after the storm abates, they discover that they were only two hundred yards from camp.

Kamp Krusty was first seen in the television episode "Kamp Krusty".
Bart also gets lost in the woods (albeit with Homer rather than Milhouse, and with a considerably different outcome) in the episode "The Call of the Simpsons".