[MPJackal]

“Torching it just brought them straight to it. What would the reason be for doing that?”

Simple, so they search for him on the Mountian instead of where he is.

[ponygirl]

But they are saying now that the truck had a broken axle and that he had left cold-weather survival equipment, ammunition and some larger weapons in the truck. Basically, just taking what he could carry.

I don't know. Either the dude is some kind of mastermind, or he's just been damn lucky so far.