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Posted by Bill S on July 18, 2007 at 7:53:23 pm EDT
In reply to What's in Your Survival Kit? posted by Alicia on July 2, 2007 at 10:55:02 am EDT

Larry -
You shouldn't leave the itinerary open in the car window for the world to see (or stuck under the windshield wiper to be blown off in a strong gust of wind). There are plenty of safe alternatives, such as your suggestion of leaving it with your wife (doesn't work for me, since Barb is often with me). One is to leave it at the ranger station on the way to the trailhead (easy to do out here in the West, since you usually have to get permits for overnight trips, and there are ranger stations in or near the trailheads for dayhikes, plus you can leave it in the fee envelope that you deposit for parking - even though I have annual and life passes, I still have to deposit a fee envelope with my pass number). Another is to put it in an envelope on the driver's seat, visible to the ranger, but with the itinerary hidden from casual eyes.

OTOH, here in the SFBay Area, we have had occasional rashes of daylight breakins in the parking lots and at trailheads, even when other people were present in the vicinity. You might have seen the burglar alarm ad on TV where the burglar is dressed like a jogger, watches the victim enter the house, then rushes the house and kicks in the door (in the ad, the alarm saves the day, of course). Break-in, grab, and flee takes only seconds. Some years ago, at Quincy Quarry, a group walked down the line of parked cars breaking into every one and taking what they could find, until they got to my car which had an alarm. They fled at that point according to witnesses, but not before loading one person's total earthly possesions (he was moving that day and had stopped by the quarry for some bouldering). The people who witnessed the breakins said the total time per car was about 30 seconds, faster than anyone could run to a phone (this was before cell phones).

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