What is the thickest forest in the U.S?

How can I find a key in a forest?

• My boss from my prior job at a distillery on the edge of a national forest, used to give motivational walks through a few hundred yards of a section of a forested trail after lunch to us, his employees. The trailhead took us through a national forest, but we never went in very far. I actually left the job because he was slightly eccentric -- believed in bigfoot and considered himself a bigfoot researcher, and was not afraid to talk openly about the beliefs. He would talk about stick structures and how he left "gifts" for sasquatch in the forest, where an elusive bigfoot would return gifts to him. Weird, but he was a good manager, though, and very detail-oriented. He would explain much about wildlife and ecology and the types of trees native to West Virginia mountains and so on. A prior employee who had immigration problems borrowed the boss's car for helping someone else who was an illegal alien, but the boss felt sorry for that employee, so he let him borrow the car. The police or immigration officials interrogated the boss and wanted to search his car. The prior employee hid the boss's car near the forest trail where we had motivational walks. The police never found the vehicle, but the boss stated to everyone in the distillery that the evidence had been moved and the case was closed. Now, in my case, I let the boss borrow my pickup to transport some kegs of chemicals to another location across the county line and didn't want to get stopped or searched. I lent him my pickup but not my trailer, which has two flat tires and a broken axle, but I forgot to take off the trailer key from the key ring. Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to meet him before I quit when I heard from another employee that he would be interrogated again by the officials. He had told me on the phone that he would leave my keys in a squirrel hole in one of the trees on the forest trail where we had motivational walks and the pickup behind the tree. I went there a few days later and found the keys, but my pickup was gone, though the tire tracks of it being backed to that spot were pressed into the ground. I knew that boss was trustworthy, but it was getting dark outside, so I returned the next day and found my pickup a mile or so away on another trail, with no tire tracks whatsoever to show it was driven there. It took me and a friend with a tow truck an entire separate day to haul it back to the road. And the trailer key was gone. I still haven't figured out what truly happened. Now, thankfully, I work for YWCA, but I have no key for my trailer anymore.

• Answer:

  You can't. It isn't worth the effort. Have a new key made. I think your previous boss was probably right about bigfoot and your reason for leaving was strange.