Keyless remote disaster!

Did you try disconnecting the battery for awhile?

Did you check the battery in the remote?

I would hardly call that a disaster...

Back in the OLD DAYS (until 3 years ago for me) we always had to use the key. Heck, we even had to roll the windows up and down using our arms. The horror! ;-)

Josh had a good suggestion, well worth a try

ANd to think, a few years ago, that I thought that AC in a car was pretentious. AAARRGGHhh. Once once has something, it would be damn hard doing without. AC is great even way up north here in Edmonton, Alberta. We even have central AC in our house.

I had a car with remote entry. It was nice except I would accidentally set off the alarm occasionally. The general advice when camping is to remove everything from your pockets, if you are going to sleep in your pants. The reason for this was painfully obvious one night at a Cub Scout camp. Cub Scouts generally go car camping, with the cars parked close to the tents. One adult accidentally set off his car alarm really early in the morning. Other adults thought it was their car alarm and they started pressing buttons on their remotes. Needless say, the flashing headlights and alarms managed to wake everyone up.

As of now, I not own a car with a remote entry function. I am not sure I really want that feature since the key and remote or the key/remote combinations tend to be larger than a plain metal key.

Forgive me, but...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *catching breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I think it's worth the grief, especially since my key ring has not only many keys, but also a plush Vulcan doll. Pretty difficult to lose them, I must say...

;-)

Natalie

An old trick is to disassemble your remote and remove the red button cap from the "panic" button on your remote. That way you REALLY have to press it on purpose in order to make it go off.

Cub Scout parents camp with HUGE tents, some of them are big enough to park an SUV inside, and they aren't experienced enough to use the handy dandy pockets built into the sides of the tent.

As your sons graduate to Boy Scouts, it's the sound of the older dads unzipping tents to answer nature's call that gets people up or the cranes barking in the trees at Devil's Lake State Park in Baraboo, WI.

You must have experienced this trend personally, as well. I used a large tent when my son was on Cub Scouts. It was 10X16 with a 5x8 screened in porch - that is feet. It could and did hold the whole den. Here is the funny thing - my tent was NOT the largest! I sold it as soon as my son got into Boy Scouts. Now, the tent I use weights only 3 lbs and is

80x40 inches! It is amazing how the tent becomes much smaller when you have to carry everything including water on your back for miles . . .

As for getting up early - I am the first one up. For the reason you listed and I am used to being at work at 6:30 AM.

I started out as a den leader around 1985 and still try to get in as much camping and climbing as my wife lets me get away with. I managed to get my daughter to go to a Venturing outing and to my surprise, she even liked rappelling! I've also downsized my tent, but apparently not as much as you have. I have a 2-person Sierra Designs Omega that weighs 5 pounds and some change, at about the same size or slightly smaller.

Hopefully we'll see you out there some time!