Colorado, crap place for bugging out to.

[zteknik]

Heck,It's a whole lot better here than out east in Bloomberg central-NY.
To get anywhere decent you have to go 4 or 5 hrs and that's still no guarentee the mobs wont end up there.
Here you have the mountains to weed the weak out and not some speedbumps like NY.

[Limited GM]

because there is a lot of game in colorado, you just have to know where to look. the vast majority, a good 90%, of people have absolutely no ability to hunt or survive in the mountains. particularly in the winter. getting away from people would not be difficult at all.

Im betting it would be damn thin within weeks. Talk to some of the old timers who survived the great depression.

My Grandfather told me that there was a time if someone found a deer track, people would come from miles to see it. He wasnt kidding.

[Great-Kazoo]

Everyone & their brother will be beating the woods for food. Think it gets crowded [depending where you hunt] now, just wait. Unless you are going to pull a Jeremiah Johnson gl.
I have a spouse and a few others in the neighborhood i am committed to. Neighbor helping like minded neighbor.
Better defense in numbers, up to a point. There are a few places we have been offered to BO to, however being on the road after week 1 will not be pretty. Then again assessing the full extent of a meltdown w/out an eye in the sky is not a good option either. . I nor the spouse is humping to the hills with every other swinging dick. I'm standing my ground, at my age if there was a SHTF scenario better to die on my feet than live on my knees. YMMV of course.

Test time. Do a poll of the neighborhood, friends, who don't think like you do, john or jane q public. Ask them, if there was an emergency and they needed to move NOW, where would they go. I believe 60 % easy will say
"The Mountains? "

Traffic on a weekend sux going there now. You don't feel it will become one cluster if SHTF?

[tmckay2]

[QUOTE=jim;640817]Everyone & their brother will be beating the woods for food. Think it gets crowded [depending where you hunt] now, just wait. Unless you are going to pull a Jeremiah Johnson gl.
I have a spouse and a few others in the neighborhood i am committed to. Neighbor helping like minded neighbor.
Better defense in numbers, up to a point. There are a few places we have been offered to BO to, however being on the road after week 1 will not be pretty. Then again assessing the full extent of a meltdown w/out an eye in the sky is not a good option either. . I nor the spouse is humping to the hills with every other swinging dick. I'm standing my ground, at my age if there was a SHTF scenario better to die on my feet than live on my knees. YMMV of course.

Test time. Do a poll of the neighborhood, friends, who don't think like you do, john or jane q public. Ask them, if there was an emergency and they needed to move NOW, where would they go. I believe 60 % easy will say
"The Mountains? "

if you are talking about 6 months to a year later, then i agree. if you are talking about in the short time, say 1-3 months, i think you are nuts. 95% of people will hunker down and try to survive in their house and scavenge for food around town and take it by force from their neighbors. once all of that runs out the city is literally a wasteland with no food, then yes, everyone will head to the mountains. people that don't frequent forums such as this are generally incredibly non self sufficient. also, you don't rely 100% on game. you use it to supplement stored foods. yes, going way out in the middle of freaking nowhere in montana or something would be better, but your life would suck most of the time and if nothing ever happened it was a waste. i don't like being IN THE CITY but i like being near some niceties of modern civilization. the good news is i am perfectly happy in the wild too, so i can survive on my own. but the liklihood of such a catastrophic event is so remote, its not worth living in a place purposefully for that reason. now, preparing food, ammo, and having a plan is not a bad idea.

most people would not say theyd head to the mountains because most people have no shelter, food, water, self defense or knowledge to survive in the wild and they know this. if you ask "where would you go" then yes some will answer to the mountains because they don't know how else to answer. if you ask "what would you do" very few will say theyd pack up and go to the mountains. people on this board, yes. normal every day joe's no.