Shave Your Head
- Shave your head
- Use the inseam of your pants to cut a 6-in strip of cloth
- Survive
- Come back when your hair is 5.5 inches
365 days is a long time to survive and the first couple days will be crucial (you'll be at your peak). Depending on the environment, hygiene and safety might necessitate a buzz anyway. Keep it simple. Since the hair on a human scalp grows about 6"/yr, come back when your hair is 5.5" and chill for a month.
Sidebar
If you were to visit a national parkNational parks in the US, you would have an overall mortality rate of 0.26
deaths per 100,000
visits. If we are generous and assume 'visit' is an 'all-day visit' and assume that 365
consecutive 'all-day visits' won't increase this rate, then we would expect 94.9
deaths per 100,000
or about 1/1,000
. Now instead of a planned, year-long visit to a national park in the US, you are on an unplanned, year-long exile to the wilderness of an alien planet. Figuring out when you are going to be rescued is inconsequential to figuring out how you're going to survive.