Just for fun.....

Welcome volunteer!

As an experiment, you and a group of about 20 other volunteers will be dropped off at a remote location to be determined. Your goal is to stay alive for 7 days. How you do so is entirely up to you.

At the end of the 7 days, you will be picked up.
Alternatively, there is a pickup point 30-50 miles away from your dropoff point. You will be given a general heading towards the pickup point. Once you reach this point, you don't have to stay the remaining time. If you reach it in 5 days, you don't have to stay the last 2, so there is some incentive to moving out.

Each member of the group will be dropped off at a different location within the local area. You can team up with others that you find if you wish, or you can go alone. Once you're on the ground, there are no rules. Just as easily as you can work together, you can also take out other members of the group and take their gear for instance. Just as possible, other members of the group can be hostile to you. The natural wildlife might be a great source of food, but then again it might consider you a great source of food depending on where you're dropped off!

The catch is, you can only take what you can carry on your person, and you will not know where you will be dropped off until you get there, so the environment and climate can vary. Packing a parka then ending up in the desert is a bummer. Try to be flexible. If you decide to trek it, and pack too heavy, then the journey will be tedious. Pack too light and you can find yourself equally in trouble. Carry just your EDC and PSK and "rough it"? Carry your BoB? Something more extensive?

A few clarifications: You will not be put into a climate that would make the pickup point unreachable before 7 days are up. If, for some reason, you don't reach it in 7 days you'll still be picked up on the 7th day as if you hadn't moved out.
If you decide to stay put, it doesn't necessarily mean you can just pitch a tent and hang out- If other members of the group are going after you or your gear, "staying put" may actually mean you'll be spending much of your time on E&E and being on the run!

There is no rescue if something goes wrong, you are on your own. If you are injured, try to keep alive till the 7th day, because only then will you be picked up (unless you reach the pickup point before then).

I know the scenario is very vague- but with the limited information you have, what do you take with you and why? Do you trek it towards the dropoff point, or stay put? Do you go it alone, or team up? What factors drew you to this decision? There is no right answer, of course, just state your thoughts <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />