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If your survival strategy is to jump in your camper van at the first sign of trouble and drive out to a remote location in the mountains where you will survive by foraging, fishing and boiling tree bark for soup, you have no strategy.
Bugout is desperation unless you have a fixed prepared retreat to bugout to.
Anybody who talks about living off the land has probably never tried to live off the land. It's REALLY hard. There are no gas stations out there, so your fuel you carry will likely run out within a week, meaning your temporary bugout location will become your permanent bugout location when your gas gauge hits empty. If you plan on surviving on the calories you get from fishing and foraging, you've probably never spent an entire day fishing without catching anything or foraging for weeds that provide almost no energy content and have to be boiled for hours to be edible - mind you, your caloric requirements will be severely increased by walking miles looking for food and hiking up and down through the woods. Ever increasing demands with ever decreasing gains, soon you won't have the strength to get up in the morning to go looking for an uncertain return in food that may or may not be just waiting out there for you to find it.
Now remember that there will be millions of other misguided a**holes like yourselves trying to live out their meticulously visualized Davy Crockett fantasy at the same time all around you. In about a week, all the fish will be fished out, the game will be hunted out and they will start to strip the bark off the trees. About a month later, when real hunger sets in, it will occur to people that the only reliable source of protein out there is human flesh and the most reliable source of food and supplies is at hand by stealing and robbing any of the other hundred thousand fools out there. In two months, the landscape will be stripped bare from uncontrolled forest fires and human occupation, stinking from untreated and unburied sewage and littered with offal consisting of the less edible parts of the human frame. Mind you, all of this is the upbeat feelgood hit of the summer Frank Capra prelude to when things start to get really bad for the buggees amidst their bugouts.
If you want to know about the bugout, read some books about the Ukrainian famine.
The wilderness will be overrun with millions of people who think it's a clever idea that will enable them to survive which "other people" will not take advantage of.
The "bugout" is a one way road to oblivion