>>2033552>wouldn't it just slow you down? hurt your back after a few days?True. I've seen more a couple "bugout bag" recommendations that tell you to just pack down to bare essentials, not much more than a kid's backpack's worth. Part is that you can put it in a kid's backpack and not look like much of a target, the other part is the ultralight argument: carry less, walk further and faster. If you're bugging out, you probably need to move fast, right?
I think I'd consider something big like OP's if I lived next to a big swath of BLM land in the western US or in Buttfuck Canada, where there's not so much concern about getting targeted, but getting away from your rural house might be beneficial.
Well really, that's all a bugout bag is good for, bugging out. In a "SHTF" scenario this may be viable and may not be. For instance, the infamous /k/ SHTF pasta features a guy who was stuck in a city with his family. A bugout bag would've been useless to him because the enemy army encircled the city, no escape was possible. His best preparation would've been Mormon-style supply stacking. But you could imagine if Yellowstone blew and you needed to GTFO the edge of the ash zone, "bugging in" isn't really helpful in that situation. A BOB might be the difference between life and death in that case.
