They have been found. Keys were lost in the snow
Yay!
And that's another thing- I'm good at losing, locking, mis-placing chit... I nearly always have a spare set of accessible keys somewhere.
Our original weenie dog was forever getting up to look out the '95 Expedition windows and locking the thing up. (bad location/design) Fortunately, I only had to walk home once, the first time, a mere 7 miles. After that it was remove the keys AND have an accessable spare along. The '17 Expedition has a push-code panel on the door. I like that! I still carry a spare tho. I can remember the combo, but had to teach my wife a pattern.
. Now, if I could reliably remember our home land-line phone number......
A couple years ago we parked a friend's borrowed ATV a mile up the mountain above the bad muddy rut section, along with our two machines for the next day's hunt. We had extra keys stashed in the truck for our two, but only one key for the friend's, and it was just on a short piece of brown shoe-lace.
Guess what turned up missing back at the truck? Found it 200 yards back up the road, 30 feet up trail . My wife had it in her jacket pocket and it pulled out along with the leash for the weenie dog. Whew! Had it been lost elsewhere, we likely would not have found it.
An inconvenience at most. Tows R Us.
There are now two spare keys, and all three are on colorful keepers. Same with the snow machines and trailer lock.
I'm not the only one, either. One year a father/son pulled in to the trailhead parking, and their only key along for one of their ATV's had joggled out of the ignition on the way up. It was 100 miles back to Fairbanks for their spare. They lost a day of hunting, but filled their permits the next day anyway. Me - I'd have hunted with just the one machine.
This thread reminds me - we have to order an Inreach, and a month's basic pkg activation is only about $20. Cheap chit-happens insurance.
Our remote cabin is 50 miles from the end-of-the-road landing, and we are getting too old for that, unsupported.
