parking at trailheads for multi-day thru hikes

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TallGrass
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Re: parking at trailheads for multi-day thru hikes

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Be a conspicuously low-value high-hassle target. Park near to the honeypot convertible Ferrari with Ipads sitting in the passenger seat. Put everything in the trunk, disengage its cable (driver seat release), and put everything else under a blanket in back with something uninteresting (dirty looking sock) peeking out. Guaranteed to work 270 out of 273 years.
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Re: parking at trailheads for multi-day thru hikes

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Tallgrass, that sounds like a pretty good idea. I generally drive a "all go-no show" 1998 Jeep Cherokee.. it LOOKS like a POS... the most valuable thing on it is the tires. :)
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Re: parking at trailheads for multi-day thru hikes

Post by powhound »

There was another thread on this last year. It was called "Car Break Ins" under the Gear category. Sorry, can't figure out how to link it to here.
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Re: parking at trailheads for multi-day thru hikes

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Ok, thanks, Powhound... I'll look for it.

Found it... I cut and pasted the link for that topic...
http://www.14ers.com/forum/viewtopic.ph ... r+breakins" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Pat
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