The TC subject is cost effective BOB (axe is more economical than folding saw + big knife + mini hatchet you are carrying). We also have discussed several options and several scenarios. One of them, I'm answering to, is from templedog2: bugging out/through Northern Woodlands (dense forests).

The idea of bugging out to the woods might be viable even for an urban dweller as it creates a lot more opportunities for food and clean water procurement compared to an isolated highly populated city struck by a disaster. It's also might be viable in case of hostile military forces invasion, if you'd select to get out of war zone and avoid being captured on the road blocks along the borders.