It will be dang near impossible to hide from thermal imaging.if someone was actively looking for you. At some point you are going to run short on groceries or you water filtering system will crater. How often are you backpacking with something on your back that weights 50 to 80 pounds.

You city guys are hosed. Big time. When it all crashes and the stores don't get resupplied or the EBT cards quite working in a lot of cases it will be kill or be killed.

The real hypothetical is would you tell your wife or just pack and go......

I will protect you so neither one of us have to live in the woods.

Here is the scenario - you're at your house and you have one hour to split. You're leaving and need to spend a year hiding out in the woods. You don't have massive amounts of people looking for you or anything - I'm not talking escape and evade stuff - just a year in a part of the woods in our general area that's not your land and you aren't intimately familiar with it. You've only got an hour to put that together.

Could you pull that off successfully? I think I probably could, but I can think of a few issues that might give me some problems, but I think I could pull that off.

I know it's likely a pretty useless mental exercise, but playing out that hypothetical hour of prep for a whole year spent in the elements was kind of interesting. Like I said, I think I could make that work out.

Maybe I'm underestimating how long a year really is and how quick an hour passes, though.

I won't be bugging out to the woods.

I make my stand here.