re: You have 24 hours to hide & If u stay hidden for a week you get $1 billion. Where do u go?

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How would you know my general point of entry?

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That's a good question. Generally would use camera systems and cell phone data (maybe obtained illegally) to pin point your location at 0 hour. Then track your movements from hour 0 to 24:00 as best I could.

Honestly a person's movements in the first 24 hours really determine if they have any realistic chance at staying undetected.

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I assume you live in the Pacific Northwest which, admittedly, is probably the most conducive region of the country for hiding out and not being found. But, I still think you would be found within a couple of days.

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You assume correct. I have lots of area to find cover. Whether it's WA, OR, ID, MT.

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Between military, law enforcement, and other air support with thermal imaging capabilities, the entire region would be canvased within a few days.

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Guess I need to make things more problematic for you by being in the woods yet still close to a lot of people so a lonely heat source isn't discovered.

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Generally would use camera systems and cell phone data

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You would know where I've been but my phone is the first thing I get rid of.

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Yep, and tracking dogs...might not take even 24 hours if they know what woods you are in.

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Exactly. All these people that think they are hiding in the woods are very naive.

Maybe if they don’t know what woods you are in.

So you would have to get to that location without a trail, that is the key. That’s why I like the idea of taking a boat somewhere, it’s basically untraceable and then you can sink the boat

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Because I know the woods, where to hide, and how to survive.

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Do you know how to avoid thermal cameras?

hiding for a year is probably the better question. a week wouldnt be too hard.

I've done a damn good job of losing myself in the French Quarter for longer than 24 hours, so that would be a good start....

Possibly Orleans Parish Prison. No telling who is actually booked in there. They don't even know. The problem would be getting out...

Realistically, probably an abandoned mine where thermal imaging from the air couldn't detect me. Take a 5th of half gallon of some good booze, and put my arse to sleep so I'll stay put, and bam, there is 1 billion big ones for just doing my thing...

Last, underwater. Go grab 30 hours of air tanks and hit some body of water. Maybe the bubbles would tip someone off, but it could work...

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Do you know how to avoid thermal cameras?

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No, but I'm learning now. I just read that...

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Snow is a great insulator, so if you dig a snowhole in a drift, then shelter inside that, you’ll be very well concealed.

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I knew snow insulates but didn't realize it could cover up your heat.

And....

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If you’re deep enough in the woods you’re also safe from detection – from ground level, at least. An airborne thermal camera, looking down, can see through a light forest canopy. On the other hand, old trees with a dense canopy can conceal you from all but the most sophisticated military imagers.

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If you’re in the woods, a shelter with a roof of branches and dense brush will dramatically reduce the range you can be detected at; if you can put a layer of soil on top you’ll cut it even more.

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I guess it depends on what time of year this happens.

Reading about the snow cave reminded me of this recent story. mobile LINK

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Abandoned Snow Cave Found at Mt. Hood Meadows

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 3:47 PM by Meadows Team

Categories: StrangerThingsInside MeadowsSeymour Sasquatch

Following Tuesday’s wild weather, a Mt. Hood Meadows avalanche rescue dog discovered a cave near the base area. Enzo uncovered a snow tunnel that led to an actual underground cave. The cave appeared to be abandoned, but may have been occupied recently.

Tree branches were arranged into a make shift bed, there was a dwindling supply of huckleberries that must have been harvested over the summer and a Mt. Hood Meadows trail map. There was also some fur left behind, which Meadows is sending out for DNA testing. Resort officials are not alarmed, but surprised that someone (or something) could have been potentially dwelling so close to the base area of the resort, undiscovered.

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I've spent a weekend snow camping on Mt. Hood learning how to make a snow cave. Fun stuff. An elaborate one takes some work.

Imagine skiing all day then quietly retreating to your snow cave for a week.

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I think that leaving the cell phone behind or trashing it is a waste of misdirection. Go back to my plot a couple pages.

I would enter the airport and get my phone onto some kind of outbound flight.

That’ll buy you at least a few hours while they search.

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This is a fun suggestion, I think the issue is how effective will be the misdirection be, especially if you are wasting 2-4 hours on it vs using that time in transit to an undetectable location.