I've had worse scenarios: I was out mixed-alpine, almost 15mi miles of mixed glacier-ice in, one time, when someone snapped an ankle. I suppose you'd have to rap-down, if it were your only key, and figure out another exit strategy from the climb, or perhaps someone would have to hitch a ride, back to town, and retrieve a spare key(fob). That said, in most of my mixed-alpine and snow/ice climbing, our packs were usually tied-in, but that's not quite as common, on full-on-rock. That was the bulk of my climbing days, which sort of wound-down, when my closest climbing (and b/c ski buddy) buddy moved to CO, to ski more, and the family thing came along. I do keep a jumpstart pack, in the rear tool area, above the spare (with regards to the dead-battery, which is very rare, again, IME), and have never had that disappear, yet -]Ĭlick to expand.Yeah, interesting thought.īack in the days before all the fancy-immobilizer-keys, I often (or another driver) carried two keys, and they went into two different packs.
#HIDE A KEY DRIVER#
I take my key, anyway, and attach it to a solid-loop, in my backpack, and EVERYONE in the group gets to see where it's at (just in case something happens to the driver en-route, and someone else needs to drive it back), and then it stays there, until we're back at the car. YMMV, obviously, but I'm not so sure a hidden-key is really the solution, ultimately. I started leaving a couple of 1's, ever-so-slightly-visible, say tucked mostly in the console or similar, years ago when I'd leave my car for multi-day backpacks and climbs, and along with not locking, that seemed to "fix the broken window problem", for me. Even an alarm isn't much of a deterrent, at a remote location. If you do lock it, and it's later/overnight, and there are people "cruising the trailhead parking lots", you'll have a broken window to deal with, too, again IME. You're much better off to just not have "much of real value", in the car, at trailhead, IME, and NOT lock the car.