Well if you're bugging out it would be assumed you're taking supplies with you right? You just don't go into the woods without supplies or basic knowledge.
3min without air, 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water, 3 weeks without food.
If resource conservation is your plan, and it should be, hiking through the woods is ill advised as you’ll need close to a gallon of water a day.
So you’ll either need to carry it, at 8 lbs per gallon, or find it and sterile filter it.
Hydration becomes your priority.
I can store 500 gallons of potable water in my backyard, allowing me the flexibility to focus on other things like growing food and patrolling a perimeter.
I would try and drive deep in the woods on a 4x4 access road near a water source, idealy a river/stream. As long as I have a means of creating a fire, I'm not worried about sterilizing water and staying warm. Personally I have taken a week long survival course, covering some basics. Would it help? Probably, would it get me through the SHTF, maybe if nothing serious happens along the way.
From here I would just ration my supplies based off my daily activity, keep a low profile and wait. I would plan on monitoring the radio, hams and hopefully news is available during this time.
Besides that, my area in the cities is probably very high risk of getting killed, robbed of my stuff. I think bugging in is good if you have people in your group to share duties. I can't patrol 24/7 and do the things I need to do, even getting enough sleep will likely cause me to slip up while being on high alart for days or weeks at a time. At least in the woods I might have better odds. At least less chance of coming across people wanting to do me harm or finding people like minded.
Interesting theory, but in the end, I might not have a choice to bug in or bug out.
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