I used to trap camp when i was younger. Now i take a lightweight two person tent ⛺️. It's saved me and kept me warm, dry, and very comfortable on lots of occasions. I would love to go hot tent camping. That would be the next level .
After picking up a Dutch army poncho from your shop, I've ditched (my nephew has permanently borrowed) my 3mx4m DD tarp and picked up a cheap rubberised tarp to use as a groundsheet. Like you say the poncho is very versatile. I'm older now so I also got a Big Agnes inflatable Therm-a-rest mattress for added comfort.
Good explanation mate. Maybe worth pointing out to folk that they might need pegs and some lines for a poncho tent etc, even with tarps you only get minimal lines and pegs so handy to have more to give you options. Cheers.
the most versatile setup is the XL size 2GoSystems "Trifecta" reflectorized tyvek bivy. If it's cold, put this bivy inside of a plastic ''envelope," in a rope hammock, which is hung just 6" off of the ground (with you in it) kick debris under the hammock, so as to stop air-flow. Get a couple of 1/4 lb each full-body bugnet "suits" and a couple of their 1/2 lb each "cut-leaf" type of camo nets.. These 4 items can be combined, worn as longjohns, under your cammies. they enable me to handle 34F, in wind and rain.
Excellent round up, thanks. I agree with the multifunction aspect. I found a hammock in a sleeping bag., i find the under quilt too bulky and not suitable for a sleeping bag.. an alternative to a poncho, that I also carry us a cape / tent. You can use the poncho for the ground sheet or to extend the shelter. A magic carpet is usefu and weighs nothing by DD, get the XL.
Used one of those survival bags you show first for years. Not to sleep in, but as a ground sheet to protect under where i sleep or at the entrance to a tent that tends to get wet and muddy. Of course its always there as an emergency backup as originally intended. They are good, thick, easy to wipe clean and very hard wearing, unlike the (much lighter and smaller pack-size) foil blanket things that really are one-use only.
Living on Shetland presents a few problems ,not many trees, peat , torrential rain that can be horizontal & wind which was strong enough once to remove a weather station .
Hello again ... my tent of choice is my eureka T.C.O.P. tent combat one person.. U.S. military issue.. Out performs EVERY OTHER tent made . £ 185 New unissued.. Staggering heavy duty build quality.. FULL blackout etc.etc.etc etc.etc.etc... Great video as always...
Fluffy microphone 🎤 don't believe a word... 🐇 that's a rabbit either for your pie or visual demo of how to tie your boot laces using the bunny ears principle... glad to see you've finally stepped up from beginners entry level slip on crocks... that's a huge milestone for you mate I know how much it means to you after so many years of struggle congratulations 😝
Great video as usual 👍I would like to see a video about back packs to👍I can't wait to visit you're shop again I need a good pair of water proof walking boots 👍what do you recommend
Great vid. I love my hammock/basha set up I got from you last year. Not sure if some comments on here are being ironic or are serious but anyway. I'm all for a good hammock set up whenever I'm in the woods. So many options with it. Thanks.
Tip for the issue Basha Leigh for a bit less bulk and weight is to unpick the stitching on the carry handles and ditch them, we’re probably not going to need to a stretcher 👌🏻👍🏻
Tents are not too expensive In considering. Paracord, tarp, groundsheet, hamock, and a tying off point. Many considerations the one constant we have is there is land under our feet so a tents much more versatile unless your at sea😂. I have 3 emergency bags 1 two man tent helm 2. My second bag has a zempress atom 1 man tent. Then my third bag has a tarp 4 x 4 mt with tracking poles . I think that covers most scenarios
You don’t have to bug out to live in the wild like grizzly Adams but you may have to leave at a moments notice for a number of reasons. Thanks for watching
You forgot to mention the poncho wet weather liner, sometimes called a woobe in us forces. Very good bit of kit, ataches to the poncho. Very good otherwise, i was in uk millitry not army Navy we did not get bashers and things marines did.
At my BOL, I have 500 lbs of dry food scatter-buried in 20 gallon drums. I also have a spiderhole there. I can get there, on foot, in at most 2 nights, bringing the 100 lbs of olive oil and peanut butter on the mountain bike as I come, walking beside the bike. Fats go bad in a year or so, guys. Grains, salt, sugar, Koolaid, powdered milk will keep forever, basically and molasses will last up to 10 years. I intend to get into the hole and start tunneling horizontally. In 2 weeks, the tunnel will be 20m long, with another spiderhole at the far end of the tunnel. I can wire both lids of the exits with a 22lr noisemaker and sleep in peace in the 3x3x 8 ft sleeping chamber that's halfway thru the tunnel. If I detect men or dogs at one entrance, I can move to the other lid and decide if I"ll peek out and silent-22 1-2 of them, or toss the pipe bomb, shoot a few of them, then toss the smoke grenades and vacate the area. Move 5 miles, build another tunnel, and once every 2 weeks (at night, of course) return to access one of the food drums. With night vision, properly used, and nail sandals, the chances of me having any conflict is extremely minimal, other than on the way to my BOL,. I will stay in the tunnel for a year, coming out only at night, to access a food-bucket and cook a meal. After a year of shtf, 99% of the population will be DEAD. That will make it much safer to have hidden plots of root veggies and peanuts. tended only at night. In another year, half of the remaining 1% will be dead. That will make it reasonably safe, at night, to go scrounge what I need. Rechargeable batteries and a solar charger make it feasible to operate at night for that long, when the NODs are not used any more often than outlined above.
if I have to lay-up for one day during the bugout, it will be in a net-hammock, set 6" off of the ground, with the 2 "cut-leaf" type of camo nets over the camoed tarp, which will be over the hammock, me and my gear. I can set this up in 10 minutes in the dark. I know this, cause I' ve timed it, No big deal at all. Holding still, keeping quiet, using earplugs, sleeping mask and a sedative. I'll get some rest during the day and the next night will see me in the spiderhole. WAY better than having no food and moving long distances.
You want camoed gear , including sleeping gear, so that you can wear it as clothing You need night vision, trekking poles and enough brains to remain hidden during daylight hours. Dont show a normal light at night, or you'll get shot. You can't have a fire in daytime, or make noise. Doing those things will get you shot. If you dig a 2 ft deep Dakota fire pit, keep the fire SMALL, and surround the vent hole with both the bivy and the envelope, the firelight will go no place but straight up.
the most versatile, lw, compact options, which can be used in a variety of ways, accordin to the vegetation, your level of fitness, your clothing, the distance you have to cover, climactic conditions, the bugs, animals, all have input into what you can and should have /do. Much of the year, in much of the world, mosquitoes, biting flies, ticks, spiders, snakes, water, mud, snow,,, thorns, roots, rocks, brush, cold, rain, wind, steep slops are big issues. You've got to have your rest and you've got to be able to handle all of these issue, along with starving dog packs and armed human predators. You wont make it a 2 days without 30 lbs of stuff,, including armor a slencer 22lr autoirife, and night vision If you want food enough and water enough to get you thru 5 days, thats going to be 10 more lbs and if you want enough power in your rifle and a backup pistol, it's the total is going to be close to 50 lbs. when was the last time you trieh hiking hills, brush mud, with 50 lbs of stuff at night and tryied to cover 30 miles per night? not one in 1000 have tried, it EVER and 99% can't do it at all. 50% who do it regularly will stil have problems, triste angle, or something. You need a mountainbike, so you can put the 100 lbs of stuff you need on the bike, 30 lbs on your pack, and have a rifle in a spring clamp across the handlebars.
The mylar and plastic bags wont suffice below 50F degrees and you'll still need either a sleeping pad or a foot thick pile of dry debris, which of course wont work if it's raining or all of the debris is wet. Bring a net hammock, folks! You'll have to travel at night, or you'll probably get shot if it's shtf. They will want your gear and not want your competition for scarce resources. You can do much better with very little more bulk, weight or expense. Get an XL size reflectorized Tyvek bivy, the "Trifecta", from 2GoSystems. 1.5 lbs, quart sized,, $95. You do NOT want the regular size, unless you're a petite woman or small framed Asian man. Tape together a couple of heavy duty 55 gallon drum liners, and use the assembly to "envelope" the bivy. Then you'll sleep ok at 40F degrees, in wind and rain, in the hammock. Pull the hammock and a ridgeline thru the bivy, and pull another ridgeline between the bivy and the envelope. You dont want the bivy touching you or the envelope. You need that layer of "trapped air' between you and the bivy and another such layer between the bivy and the envelope. this is with just cammies, balaclava, 3 pairs of sock liners (one being reflectorized tyvek) gloves, and shemagh. If you'll wear longjohns, you can handle 30F. If you'll use a discrete Dakota fire pit to heat up some rocks or water and put those items in the footbox of the bivy, you can sleep ok at 20F, for 2-3 hours. Cut the rain flaps off of the zippers of the bivy, or they WILL jam with you inside of the bivy. Dont say that I didn't WARN you. The drum liners weigh just 2.3 ozs each, and do a great job vs wind and rain. With the envelope around the bivy, no rain can get to the bivy. Use seam-tape and seam-sealer to add a sleeping bag zipper to the envelope, or you'll have a terrible time getting into this assembly.
if the $100 bill aint butt wipe. It's not shtf. It's merely a short term local thing that you can get out of by pedalling a bicycle one night. so all you need is a canteen, water filter, pistol, poncho and some money. If it IS shtf, there's no point in bugging out unless youve got a year's supply of food scatter buried at your BOL, which has to be in the woods around your local water source. you wont be going any further, due to ambushes and road blocks. all it takes to stop traffic is some 1" thick wood and 3" long nails. YOu can't be out and about in daylight, can't make noise, cant show a normal light at night. If you've got a milsurp "L" shaped flashlight, rechargeable batteries, solar charger, red lense and some 1/8" wide strips of black tape on that lense, keep the light pointed at the ground, it's unnoticable at 100m in wooded hills and at about 1/4 mile on flat, open ground. There's various types of night vision for a few hundred $ these days, too. You can bring 100 lbs of coconut oil and nut butters on a mountain bicycle, walking beside it, with 30 lbs on your back, over some really bad terrain. If the terrain is more normal, you can tow another 50 lbs of water, vinegar, spices, seeds, meds, suppleents, honey on a little trailer behind the bicycle, too. The oil is 4000 calories per lb, and the nut butters are about 2500 calories per lb. If you have fat in which to fry the cambium,, after dicing and boiling it, you can chew the cambium for the starches in it and spit out the fibers. then, instead of the 320,000 calories of the nut oil and butters, you can also have maybe 80,000 calories of locally harvested cambium. When you're just laying in a tunnel all day, you need 1500-2500 calories to maintain your bodyweight, depending upon how cold it is and how big you are. So you might have 6-8 months worth of food on the bike. If you can bring the trailer, it might be 7-9 months. Depending upon how fat you are, you might have another 1-2 months worth of body-fat. A year into shtf, 99% of the population will be dead. 90% in 6 months. Depending upon where you are, you might then get away with (at night) tending small, hidden plots of sprouts, root veggies and peanuts. Best to have half a dozen 20 gallon drums buried already, tho, full of salt, sugar, koolaid, powdered milk, granola, jerky, You'll need pre-buried, empty drums for the food you're bringing on the bike, too. You'll have to dig a tunnel to hide in, and conceal the excavated dirt, too. Come out only at night, only for an hour and scan 360 first with thermal or IR imaging. Repeat every 5 minutes. Wear nail sandals and always take different routes to and from your two spiderhole lids,so you dont beat a path. Then the odds of you having problems with other people will be very low
The roads will be full of ambushes within a few hours of shtf. People will want your gear/food/women/kids. Nobody's going anywhere by road or 4 wheeled vehicle post shtf. There will be stalled, shot-up vehicles blocking the roads in every city/choke-point. You'll have to walk thru the storm-drains in order to get out even reasonably safely. If you have a mountain bicycle and some food stashed in a rental storage unit at the edge of town, you can then make good time on the back roads, while carrying a useful amount of high calorie food. That means olive oil and nut butters. 100 lbs of such food is 300,000 calories, enough food for you to lose no weight for 100 days, if you are "holed-up" in a tunnel that you've dug post shtf. You can stretch that to 150 days by mixing tree-cambium with the fats and you've got enough bodyfat to last a month, maybe 2 months. 6 months into shtf, 90% of the population will be dead, so the odds are that you''ll be safe enough, at night, to tend plots of veggies. If that time frame takes you into winter, you'l have to use an inflatable boat (buried near a creek or river) to move 30 miles per night, southward to where it does not freeze at night, Then you can have your garden there.
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I’m ex military and I bloody love the simplicity of a basha
I used to trap camp when i was younger.
Now i take a lightweight two person tent ⛺️.
It's saved me and kept me warm, dry, and very comfortable on lots of occasions.
I would love to go hot tent camping. That would be the next level .
Hi Leigh a vid on how to do all the configurations with a 3x3 tarp would be good. 😃
I only use and stick to a few, but yes a good idea for a future vid. 👍
Greetings from the states! Thank you very much for the great video and content on your channel!
It's nice to see what our cousins are doing across the sea! I always look forward to your videos!
Thanks for tuning in
Hello to our dear friends from the states welcome to the coolest bug out channel the U.K has
After picking up a Dutch army poncho from your shop, I've ditched (my nephew has permanently borrowed) my 3mx4m DD tarp and picked up a cheap rubberised tarp to use as a groundsheet. Like you say the poncho is very versatile. I'm older now so I also got a Big Agnes inflatable Therm-a-rest mattress for added comfort.
Thanks Stuart
Good explanation mate. Maybe worth pointing out to folk that they might need pegs and some lines for a poncho tent etc, even with tarps you only get minimal lines and pegs so handy to have more to give you options. Cheers.
Yes, I should of mentioned a fixing kit.
the most versatile setup is the XL size 2GoSystems "Trifecta" reflectorized tyvek bivy. If it's cold, put this bivy inside of a plastic ''envelope," in a rope hammock, which is hung just 6" off of the ground (with you in it) kick debris under the hammock, so as to stop air-flow. Get a couple of 1/4 lb each full-body bugnet "suits" and a couple of their 1/2 lb each "cut-leaf" type of camo nets.. These 4 items can be combined, worn as longjohns, under your cammies. they enable me to handle 34F, in wind and rain.
Excellent round up, thanks. I agree with the multifunction aspect. I found a hammock in a sleeping bag., i find the under quilt too bulky and not suitable for a sleeping bag.. an alternative to a poncho, that I also carry us a cape / tent. You can use the poncho for the ground sheet or to extend the shelter. A magic carpet is usefu and weighs nothing by DD, get the XL.
Used one of those survival bags you show first for years. Not to sleep in, but as a ground sheet to protect under where i sleep or at the entrance to a tent that tends to get wet and muddy. Of course its always there as an emergency backup as originally intended. They are good, thick, easy to wipe clean and very hard wearing, unlike the (much lighter and smaller pack-size) foil blanket things that really are one-use only.
Living on Shetland presents a few problems ,not many trees, peat , torrential rain that can be horizontal & wind which was strong enough once to remove a weather station .
Hello again ... my tent of choice is my eureka T.C.O.P.
tent combat one person..
U.S. military issue..
Out performs EVERY OTHER tent made .
£ 185
New unissued..
Staggering heavy duty build quality..
FULL blackout etc.etc.etc etc.etc.etc...
Great video as always...
Military kit is well made and will always serve you well
Fluffy microphone 🎤 don't believe a word... 🐇 that's a rabbit either for your pie or visual demo of how to tie your boot laces using the bunny ears principle... glad to see you've finally stepped up from beginners entry level slip on crocks... that's a huge milestone for you mate I know how much it means to you after so many years of struggle congratulations 😝
Great info and good to see your stock. Cheers
Thanks for watching!
Great video as usual 👍I would like to see a video about back packs to👍I can't wait to visit you're shop again I need a good pair of water proof walking boots 👍what do you recommend
All leather boots i found to be best for wet conditions.
Great vid. I love my hammock/basha set up I got from you last year. Not sure if some comments on here are being ironic or are serious but anyway. I'm all for a good hammock set up whenever I'm in the woods. So many options with it. Thanks.
Cheers Andy 👍
Tip for the issue Basha Leigh for a bit less bulk and weight is to unpick the stitching on the carry handles and ditch them, we’re probably not going to need to a stretcher 👌🏻👍🏻
Good Tip 👍
Tents are not too expensive In considering.
Paracord, tarp, groundsheet, hamock, and a tying off point.
Many considerations the one constant we have is there is land under our feet so a tents much more versatile unless your at sea😂.
I have 3 emergency bags 1 two man tent helm 2. My second bag has a zempress atom 1 man tent. Then my third bag has a tarp 4 x 4 mt with tracking poles . I think that covers most scenarios
Great gear Leigh and very good advice , any news on the items I want to buy mate .cheers .Ste
👏👏👏👏 great video thank you.
Cheers Mike. I thought I scheduled this video to screen next week, so a bit of a surprise to see it live on the channel this morning 😂
What kind of scenario would you bug out in the uk? There’s not the wilderness here to survive of the land. Get home bags I fully understand.
You don’t have to bug out to live in the wild like grizzly Adams but you may have to leave at a moments notice for a number of reasons. Thanks for watching
Thanks! I like the ponchos but I suppose a tent would be ideal.
Tent is more comfortable
You forgot to mention the poncho wet weather liner, sometimes called a woobe in us forces. Very good bit of kit, ataches to the poncho.
Very good otherwise, i was in uk millitry not army Navy we did not get bashers and things marines did.
Great Video 👍
Thanks
I have the waterproof camo poncho, a 3m x 3m tarp, paracord, and a pop up tent.
The bells of defeat strike the unprepared
👍
You forgot to mention dossin down in a rural bus shelter or a workman's hut (not that you see the latter much these days)
At my BOL, I have 500 lbs of dry food scatter-buried in 20 gallon drums. I also have a spiderhole there. I can get there, on foot, in at most 2 nights, bringing the 100 lbs of olive oil and peanut butter on the mountain bike as I come, walking beside the bike. Fats go bad in a year or so, guys. Grains, salt, sugar, Koolaid, powdered milk will keep forever, basically and molasses will last up to 10 years. I intend to get into the hole and start tunneling horizontally.
In 2 weeks, the tunnel will be 20m long, with another spiderhole at the far end of the tunnel. I can wire both lids of the exits with a 22lr noisemaker and sleep in peace in the 3x3x 8 ft sleeping chamber that's halfway thru the tunnel. If I detect men or dogs at one entrance, I can move to the other lid and decide if I"ll peek out and silent-22 1-2 of them, or toss the pipe bomb, shoot a few of them, then toss the smoke grenades and vacate the area. Move 5 miles, build another tunnel, and once every 2 weeks (at night, of course) return to access one of the food drums.
With night vision, properly used, and nail sandals, the chances of me having any conflict is extremely minimal, other than on the way to my BOL,. I will stay in the tunnel for a year, coming out only at night, to access a food-bucket and cook a meal. After a year of shtf, 99% of the population will be DEAD. That will make it much safer to have hidden plots of root veggies and peanuts. tended only at night. In another year, half of the remaining 1% will be dead. That will make it reasonably safe, at night, to go scrounge what I need. Rechargeable batteries and a solar charger make it feasible to operate at night for that long, when the NODs are not used any more often than outlined above.
Great vid ,great info to think about ,thanks from llandod
Thanks for watching
You read my mind.😮 I've got to get a stealth tent.
Good choice, if you can find it.
@@TheBugOutShop😂
if I have to lay-up for one day during the bugout, it will be in a net-hammock, set 6" off of the ground, with the 2 "cut-leaf" type of camo nets over the camoed tarp, which will be over the hammock, me and my gear. I can set this up in 10 minutes in the dark. I know this, cause I' ve timed it, No big deal at all. Holding still, keeping quiet, using earplugs, sleeping mask and a sedative. I'll get some rest during the day and the next night will see me in the spiderhole. WAY better than having no food and moving long distances.
You want camoed gear , including sleeping gear, so that you can wear it as clothing You need night vision, trekking poles and enough brains to remain hidden during daylight hours. Dont show a normal light at night, or you'll get shot. You can't have a fire in daytime, or make noise. Doing those things will get you shot. If you dig a 2 ft deep Dakota fire pit, keep the fire SMALL, and surround the vent hole with both the bivy and the envelope, the firelight will go no place but straight up.
the most versatile, lw, compact options, which can be used in a variety of ways, accordin to the vegetation, your level of fitness, your clothing, the distance you have to cover, climactic conditions, the bugs, animals, all have input into what you can and should have /do. Much of the year, in much of the world, mosquitoes, biting flies, ticks, spiders, snakes, water, mud, snow,,, thorns, roots, rocks, brush, cold, rain, wind, steep slops are big issues. You've got to have your rest and you've got to be able to handle all of these issue, along with starving dog packs and armed human predators. You wont make it a 2 days without 30 lbs of stuff,, including armor a slencer 22lr autoirife, and night vision If you want food enough and water enough to get you thru 5 days, thats going to be 10 more lbs and if you want enough power in your rifle and a backup pistol, it's the total is going to be close to 50 lbs. when was the last time you trieh hiking hills, brush mud, with 50 lbs of stuff at night and tryied to cover 30 miles per night? not one in 1000 have tried, it EVER and 99% can't do it at all. 50% who do it regularly will stil have problems, triste angle, or something. You need a mountainbike, so you can put the 100 lbs of stuff you need on the bike, 30 lbs on your pack, and have a rifle in a spring clamp across the handlebars.
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NB decent knife -- some trees -- you can make pegs !
The mylar and plastic bags wont suffice below 50F degrees and you'll still need either a sleeping pad or a foot thick pile of dry debris, which of course wont work if it's raining or all of the debris is wet. Bring a net hammock, folks! You'll have to travel at night, or you'll probably get shot if it's shtf. They will want your gear and not want your competition for scarce resources. You can do much better with very little more bulk, weight or expense. Get an XL size reflectorized Tyvek bivy, the "Trifecta", from 2GoSystems. 1.5 lbs, quart sized,, $95.
You do NOT want the regular size, unless you're a petite woman or small framed Asian man. Tape together a couple of heavy duty 55 gallon drum liners, and use the assembly to "envelope" the bivy. Then you'll sleep ok at 40F degrees, in wind and rain, in the hammock. Pull the hammock and a ridgeline thru the bivy, and pull another ridgeline between the bivy and the envelope.
You dont want the bivy touching you or the envelope. You need that layer of "trapped air' between you and the bivy and another such layer between the bivy and the envelope. this is with just cammies, balaclava, 3 pairs of sock liners (one being reflectorized tyvek) gloves, and shemagh. If you'll wear longjohns, you can handle 30F. If you'll use a discrete Dakota fire pit to heat up some rocks or water and put those items in the footbox of the bivy, you can sleep ok at 20F, for 2-3 hours.
Cut the rain flaps off of the zippers of the bivy, or they WILL jam with you inside of the bivy. Dont say that I didn't WARN you. The drum liners weigh just 2.3 ozs each, and do a great job vs wind and rain. With the envelope around the bivy, no rain can get to the bivy. Use seam-tape and seam-sealer to add a sleeping bag zipper to the envelope, or you'll have a terrible time getting into this assembly.
Poncho
if the $100 bill aint butt wipe. It's not shtf. It's merely a short term local thing that you can get out of by pedalling a bicycle one night. so all you need is a canteen, water filter, pistol, poncho and some money. If it IS shtf, there's no point in bugging out unless youve got a year's supply of food scatter buried at your BOL, which has to be in the woods around your local water source. you wont be going any further, due to ambushes and road blocks. all it takes to stop traffic is some 1" thick wood and 3" long nails. YOu can't be out and about in daylight, can't make noise, cant show a normal light at night. If you've got a milsurp "L" shaped flashlight, rechargeable batteries, solar charger, red lense and some 1/8" wide strips of black tape on that lense, keep the light pointed at the ground, it's unnoticable at 100m in wooded hills and at about 1/4 mile on flat, open ground. There's various types of night vision for a few hundred $ these days, too.
You can bring 100 lbs of coconut oil and nut butters on a mountain bicycle, walking beside it, with 30 lbs on your back, over some really bad terrain. If the terrain is more normal, you can tow another 50 lbs of water, vinegar, spices, seeds, meds, suppleents, honey on a little trailer behind the bicycle, too. The oil is 4000 calories per lb, and the nut butters are about 2500 calories per lb. If you have fat in which to fry the cambium,, after dicing and boiling it, you can chew the cambium for the starches in it and spit out the fibers. then, instead of the 320,000 calories of the nut oil and butters, you can also have maybe 80,000 calories of locally harvested cambium. When you're just laying in a tunnel all day, you need 1500-2500 calories to maintain your bodyweight, depending upon how cold it is and how big you are.
So you might have 6-8 months worth of food on the bike. If you can bring the trailer, it might be 7-9 months. Depending upon how fat you are, you might have another 1-2 months worth of body-fat. A year into shtf, 99% of the population will be dead. 90% in 6 months. Depending upon where you are, you might then get away with (at night) tending small, hidden plots of sprouts, root veggies and peanuts. Best to have half a dozen 20 gallon drums buried already, tho, full of salt, sugar, koolaid, powdered milk, granola, jerky, You'll need pre-buried, empty drums for the food you're bringing on the bike, too. You'll have to dig a tunnel to hide in, and conceal the excavated dirt, too. Come out only at night, only for an hour and scan 360 first with thermal or IR imaging. Repeat every 5 minutes. Wear nail sandals and always take different routes to and from your two spiderhole lids,so you dont beat a path. Then the odds of you having problems with other people will be very low
The roads will be full of ambushes within a few hours of shtf. People will want your gear/food/women/kids. Nobody's going anywhere by road or 4 wheeled vehicle post shtf. There will be stalled, shot-up vehicles blocking the roads in every city/choke-point. You'll have to walk thru the storm-drains in order to get out even reasonably safely.
If you have a mountain bicycle and some food stashed in a rental storage unit at the edge of town, you can then make good time on the back roads, while carrying a useful amount of high calorie food. That means olive oil and nut butters.
100 lbs of such food is 300,000 calories, enough food for you to lose no weight for 100 days, if you are "holed-up" in a tunnel that you've dug post shtf. You can stretch that to 150 days by mixing tree-cambium with the fats and you've got enough bodyfat to last a month, maybe 2 months. 6 months into shtf, 90% of the population will be dead, so the odds are that you''ll be safe enough, at night, to tend plots of veggies. If that time frame takes you into winter, you'l have to use an inflatable boat (buried near a creek or river) to move 30 miles per night, southward to where it does not freeze at night, Then you can have your garden there.
Wow I didn’t know things were that bad with Russia…where do you bug out to on an island??? You need bug out boats silly…anything else is just camping.
Are you hiding from Connor McGregor?
Connor is welcome here anytime time,