Two sisters and a teenage son moved to a Colorado campsite last July, living off canned food. They had wanted to take a break from a world that distressed them, a local coroner said.
You also need someone who isn’t with you to know where you are and arrange check-ins of some sort, or at least give them a time frame of when they can expect to hear from you again if all is well.
If they had read a few more books on survival, this would have been prevented.
Usually those books tell you that you need provisions through winter and if you don’t, you need to get those provisions from someplace.
Nobody typically lives 100% off the grid the first year or more unless they’re a super expert.
You also need someone who isn’t with you to know where you are and arrange check-ins of some sort, or at least give them a time frame of when they can expect to hear from you again if all is well.