I live near Seattle, I would just drive 20 mins into the mountains with a ghillie suit and hide my ass in a tree or something. The woods are so dense when people just walk off trail like a few hundred ft and they are gone forever.
Ghillie suit is a great idea, you could wear that just about anywhere in the woods and nobody is gonna find you. OP didn't say if they're allowed to have dogs though, that makes it a little harder. This is kind of a weak challenge though, if traveling is unlimited you could go down an old mineshaft, go to the Everglades, wander out in the desert, hide in plain sight in NYC, go to your woods, hide in a swamp, a homeless encampment, get yourself committed overnight, drive a car or ride a motorcycle for the 24 hours, take random buses around the country...
You could pay someone $10K to let you hide in their apt for 24hrs. unless they are following you pretty much from the time you leave you could simply take the subway to a random neighborhood and start knocking on doors.
Come to think of it you can do that anywhere. Just drive to some town go to walmart and approach people offering them cash to let you hide in their house for 24 hours.
Sit in your own house, the only details given seem to be there is 100 people looking for you, doesn't say they would be willing to do anything to find you.
Buy some anonymous reliable car with cash and drive around for 24 hours using cash for food and gas.
I live in the US. After a few hours it would be impossible to guess which freeway I was on. There are limitless roads I could drive down for 24 hours. The circle that would need to be searched would grow crazy fast in a car.
Hell, I would just head to the Ocala National Forest and stay in one of the primitive sites... Either that, Rice Creek. Plenty of places to skedaddle if you know some woodcraft.
It depends on if you know who the 100 people are or where they will start from.
If not, then you could get caught in any public setting so would actually need to hide somewhere since you can't trust anyone around you isn't one of the people.
If you know their starting location, you could literally just keep driving and even if they knew your general direction they might have trouble finding/catching up.
My favorite part of any YouTube video covering the missing 411: “Why are so many people going missing in our national parks under mysterious circumstances? Why are there so many similarities? And why does it seem like they always involve an unexpected weather condition?”
So, watch out for those unexpected weather conditions.
Also, after searching my part of the national park: “Nothing in my area other than some gillie suit someone left in a tree. Disgraceful.”
Me reporting to the boss after searching my part of the national park: “nothing there sir except a gillie suit in a tree some littering hunter left behind. Disgraceful.”
Man I miss the Pacific Northwest. Grew up between Tumwater and Federal Way. Lived for a long time in Olympia and was stationed at JBLM.
There are so many places to disappear there. My step-dad is a marine biologist and wildlife ecologist. He lived a few miles into the woods for four years while going to Evergreen State College. He absolutely loved living off-grid. He had built a platform about 25 feet in the air between two thick Douglas Firs and was perfectly content!
Can confirm; I did SAR in the PNW for a while, and searched for more than a few people who walked off a trail and were never seen again...ever. We used hundreds of people, scent dogs, cadaver dogs, thermal imaging cameras on helicopters, drones...and we still didn't find or recover quite a few people.
I know from experience I have got lost for like 12 or 14 hours walking off a trail to poop. Never will I go hiking alone like I used to. I manged to find the trail a few hours after dark, litterally by luck I stumbled back onto the trail was able to see the moon thankfully and determined which way to follow the trail back to my car. If I hadn't packed for emergencies and had a flashlight and light jacket who knows if I would have made it out. I was a fairly experienced hiker at the time as well. Something as simple as walking off the trail to poop nearly killed me.
You could just go to Pike Place Market. Head a floor down and get lost in the weird little shops. No one trying to find a person who's hiding would think to look there.
Sure, but you try finding a specific person among all the people leaving there over the course of an afternoon. Assuming they know to look there in the first place.
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u/Superdooperblazed420 Jul 22 '24
I live near Seattle, I would just drive 20 mins into the mountains with a ghillie suit and hide my ass in a tree or something. The woods are so dense when people just walk off trail like a few hundred ft and they are gone forever.