[at-l] Security Issues during Resupply

[askowronek at mindspring.com (amy)]

On Monday, December 15, 2003, at 08:54  PM, Leslie Booher wrote:

>
> Hey, Datto, MY pack was stolen during Trail Days 2000!  Maybe that was 
> MY stuff they tried to sell you!  I still miss some of that stuff, 
> too, particularly the pack itself.  My pack was outside the tent body, 
> but under the fly of my Nomad, and I was asleep with my face not 18" 
> from the pack.  I sleep hard, though, and they just zipped through the 
> campground around 6:00 a.m. on their bicycles and heisted it.  The 
> Leki man saw them in the campgrounds, but he couldn't say specifically 
> that they took my stuff.  The police chief said that he knew exactly 
> who we were talking about, but he couldn't pin it on them.  Yes, do be 
> careful at Trail Days, but I don't know what to say about how to do 
> that unless you strike camp every morning and take everything with you 
> everywhere you go.

... and still have the issue of not being able to bring the backpack 
into establishments
with you while at Trail Days.  :)

That may be one of those places where it's worthwhile to have one of 
those
mesh lockie thingies.

Oh, I know!  Have your friends and family come too.  They can rent a 
motel
room outside of town, drive you around to grocery stores, buy you
large expensive meals, and store your pack in their room.

-amy