Once my supplies ran out, I’d be in trouble. This is a country where even trained, equipped survivalists fail to find enough calories to live off. Before the modern era most people lived on the coast and made fishing and shellfish collecting a big part of their food production.
Live off my body fat for a while, trying to eat tree bark. Then freeze to death in winter.
If we’re talking for any extended period of time I would try to seek support from others. If I’m hiding that means some people want to find me, but presumably not everyone. I’m not equipped with the knowledge or skills to survive on my own in the wilderness. Even if I have the skills, inevitably there are going to be challenges which are difficult if not impossible to handle on your own.
Fishing would be pretty much my only source of food during the winter time but in all honesty I’d probably freeze to death before I’d die of hunger
I would steal the picnic baskets of unaware families. Years of watching Yogi Bear would finally pay off.
*pic-i-nic if you’re doing it like yogi
Boo boo is that you?
Most people will find out in a hurry how hard it is get enough food.
I watch that TV show Alone and even experienced survivalists struggle to get food. Us normies are screwed.
yeah but they have a very limited amount of supplies from a very limited selection (no guns) and its generally been intentionally in places that are very hard to survive in for one reason or another. Don’t get me wrong though. Still hard but if you have yurt with sattelite internet and solar panels and guns and many buckets of survival rations and like something that gets water from humidity automatically and such. well not really as bad. so I guess it depends on how much time you could prep your hiding spot or even your stuff your going to go out with.
That’s true and it’s similar to how I took the question. If I’ve gone into hiding, I imagine it’s an emergency situation with little to no time to prepare.
yeah but civiliazation is not far away so you should be able to scrounge at the least. in the show a plastic tarp or anything that can be used as a container is a big deal.
Hah, I would channel the beast inside me and go the way of the wild wolves: find a house and get domesticated.
Depends. I think I could survive long enough to succumb to the parasites and bacteria in whatever drinking water source I had to use. My fat stores would keep me going for a good while but I’d be too weak to forage. I can’t trap for shit so I’d be on an all bug diet unless there are fish and crawdads.
Yeah for sure the parasites and bacteria would take me out within a month.
This is in the middle of the woods in winter with no resources (maybe a knife). A change to those conditions extends me out a month or two.
People imagine they die from exposure, or starvation, or wild animals.
Nope. You’re going to die from shitting yourself. If you have to choose, eschew the knife and choose the metal pot. At least, then, you can boil your drinking water.
Very quickly, to get it over with.
My “woods” are the Rocky Mountains, so my thinking goes there.
Do I get gear or not? If I have gear, I will be pretty set for a while during summer. I backpack in the wilderness so I can get pretty comfy on minimal kit. I am working on learning foraging, and a region-specific book would be handy. I would be screwed come winter though, because of the snow, wind, cold, lack of fuel (buried under snow), and lack of food.
No gear, that’s rough any time of year. I would probably die of exposure pretty quick even in the summer depending on altitude. If I am up in the high mountains the water will probably be safe without boiling, so it could be drunk from the source. I’d have to find a cave or build a shelter in a wooded area. It would be tough to start a fire and do anything without a knife.
I don’t want to be in the mountains without gear. Seriously. I think I would head right back down and turn my ass over to the authorities.
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Depends on what type of forest it is and what my reason is for being there. Am I hiding or can I interact with other people? In which case, I think I could survive indefinitely in Lower Appalachia, right near the start of the AT. Plenty of through traffic so I’d never get lonely and have a constant source of trade, plus winters would be incredibly mild.
I live in Northern British Columbia…so 10 minutes.
As a type 1 diabetic who knows nothing about survival stuff, not long at all
I’d probably be happier, modern life depresses me and while I do think the first few months would be tricky the freedom of it does really appeal to me.
