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Originally Posted by GratefulCitizen
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Good point.
Obviously, cutting through backyards on the run with a long gun in your hand will raise more attention than walking by on the sidewalk, appropriately dressed, with a small pack on and no guns visible. In fact, in some areas, you might arouse less suspicion dressed shabbily and pushing your goods in a shopping cart, riding a bike, or jogging in PT clothes.
There are places and times for each. Unless I had some network or overwhelming reason to stay, I would be getting out of the metropolitan area and into the woods as soon as possible.
Once there, I would try and work routes that kept me away from populated areas and under the most overhead cover possible. Pray it isn't hunting season.
As Ape Man pointed out, you will have large danger areas to cross along your path, some of which will be unavoidable. You would want to cross them as inconspicouosly as possible, preferably at a place and time when there is minimum visibility and traffic.
If you are moving in woods and want to stay undercover, you should not be moving up hill or in the in the higher areas. An untraveled ravine with relatively light vegetation would be great for a tactical foot movement where you were tring to minimize exposure.
And you would not believe how much darker a triple canopy is than a pine forest.
TR