If he really wanted to disappear, he would delete his Flickr account, shut down his email address, and not say a word about where he is to anybody enough of an attention whore to pass the news along to Wired.
Re:What We Know About Evan Ratliff, So Far
by commiebob on Monday August 24, 2009 @09:51PM
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Part of the game is that he has to continue using Facebook, Flickr, his cell phone, etc.
http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/08/author-evan-ratliff-is-o...
Otherwise, he would just go sit in the woods for a month and it wouldn't be much of a game.
Unless of course he's camping in Utah while leaving a false trail in California...