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pizzadude
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:24am
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I'm telling you.. I hear absolutely nothing.
The footsteps of a tick could echo these woods right about now.
Nice really, but eerie.
No. It's very nice....
Most evenings are quiet like this,, to the extreme. Unless it rains or is windy.
Is there a silence that is too quiet?
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pizzadude
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:41am
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Lit a campfire. Crackling spruce put an end to the quietness in a big way.
Pack of wolves howling up at the creek now too.
Probably got a fawn
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Coastal
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:44am
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Same here! It's amazing!
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bobrok
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 09:25am
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One night when in my sleeping bag a small animal of some sort lay down directly on the other side of my tent wall for a snooze.
It was so quiet outside I just lay there and listened to this animal calmly breathing just inches away from my face.
That was awesome, to say the least.
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Littlecooner
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 11:56am
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wind drifting up the creek? bet those wolves smell pizza breath and are letting their buds know there is new food in town, just down the creek a little.
Welcome to the great outdoors- the silence- I think that is one of the huge factors that has lead me to spend a large majority of my life in the "woods". Sometimes its hours before any sound, especially in a fresh fallen snow when all the animals are waiting on the weather to break.
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Brknarow
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 12:56pm
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This made me think of a comedian, Drew Hastings routine.
Referring to people who live in a city not understand living in the county.
"Did you know that a possum walking through the corn rows sounds exactly like three men with an ax."
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 01:13pm
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It sounds awesome! But, yeah, I'll bet it takes some time for the senses to adjust.
I LOVE the hush that falls over an area with a decent accumulation of snow. I miss that so much since moving to Texas. One Thanksgiving Day, though, we got 6 inches of snow. I was up really early to start cooking, saw nature's surprise, and went outside. It was SO pristine and beautifully quiet. Bundled up, I just sat on the porch and drunk it all in before "civilization" started to stir and intrude.
I'm so looking forward to that peace and the rhythms of nature.
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cbright
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 01:51pm
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I've only experienced DEAD silence once in my life. I was on a mountain in Quebec while snowboarding. It was dead still and there was a weird dense fog that day that totally killed all sound. Noticed it while stopping on a trail to take a break. Was freaky!
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steveqvs
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 02:37pm
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I once heard a turtle go by and it was so loud in the leaves I thought it was big animal!!
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gsreimers
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 02:49pm
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normally up at the cabin at night there is a constant noise from loons, owl, the wind or something else. Woke up at around 1 am Saturday evening and stepped out side and it was so quiet it was scary. Not a sound from anything. 2 hours later a storm came in and the thunder and lightning was incredible.
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NorthRick
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 07:33pm
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In the winter time at our cabin it can be unbelievably quiet. No insects, no animals (that I you hear), and often no birds. I'll go outside and, if the gray jays aren't around begging for snacks, there will be no noise at all. None. At least until I start up a chainsaw, snowmobile, generator...
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hueyjazz
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:13pm
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Our five day a week house is near a park, airport, University and a hospital. Noise is, well; duh Ever present!
90% of the reason we bought the cabin was to be in the middle of no where and then go ten miles past that.
However, the sound of the cabin are deafening. Fish jumping, frogs, owls, coyotes, hummingbirds and the stream.
So cabin noise is OK
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creeky
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:14pm - Edited by: creeky
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it was so quiet one time. i could hear atoms decaying. ok. just kidding. it was antimatter colliding with matter.
i was woken up one night by a horrible horrible thumping. i'm looking around. where's that noise coming from? turned out, it was my heart. true story.
maybe I was dreaming because I'm pretty sure a po'boy named edgar was reading from a book next to me.
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bobrok
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2015 08:42pm
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Quoting: creeky maybe I was dreaming because I'm pretty sure a po'boy named edgar was reading from a book next to me.
yeah, and I'm quite certain that was a moose bedded down outside my tent
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Gary O
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# Posted: 19 Aug 2015 04:22am
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Twelve midnight
Genny's off
I lay there in bed, blinking in the dark
Something woke me up
Seems it was a deep rumble, possibly growling sound
Quite close
Was that a moving shadow in the window?
All's quiet
I'm a bit unnerved
Almost drift off
There it is again
Wife stirs
Mumbles something in regard to the redolence of a rotting buffalo carcass
Well played, Sriracha
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1300_stainless
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2015 02:20pm - Edited by: 1300_stainless
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I can relate to Gary O on this one. I often hear strange noises while in the bush, only to realize they are coming from myself. Often my stomach. I'm sure I make them regularly, but the camp is the only place quiet enough for me to pick up on them.
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drb777
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# Posted: 20 Aug 2015 09:53pm - Edited by: drb777
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Easily one of the best qualities of cabin life is the lack of city noises. But my favorite country sound is in the summer evenings when the whippoorwills make their distinctive calls to each other.
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Malamute
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2015 01:33pm
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Many dont understand or like the silence where I am. It seems intimidating to many people.
I've heard people talking in conversational tones a half mile away when it was still.
Sometimes when out at night I hear a car on a road,....I finally see it, a mile or more away, just the sound of the tires on the pavement.
I heard a backhoe working once, it was lightly snowing. It sounded like it was just over the hill behind the cabin. I took a walk, and finally figured out where it was, about 2 miles away.
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Brknarow
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2015 03:00pm
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I know this may be a bit off topic, but I've tried to explain this to some of my friends from a 'survivalist' aspect. They're all worried about having axes and chainsaws so they'll be able to cut firewood. I'm telling them that's a good idea after the first year, but the sound of splitting firewood and the odor of wood smoke will lead every starving and dangerous person or group to your home from miles away.
They just don't understand how sound can carry. I suggest having a 100 lb propane tank to use until the worse of it is over. Just theory though as the practical is yet to come.
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upndown
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2015 10:09pm
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As a boy growing up in Chicago, noise was all I knew. In one of the buildings we lived in (notice I didn't call it a house) I even had a bus stop under my bedroom window.
Fortunately my Father purchased some land and built us a Home by his own hands out in the middle of Nowhere! I can still recall the first night we spent there, couldn't sleep. No CTA busses or cars playing me a lullaby, just these damn Crickets and Frogs singing to me..haha
Now I seek silence and am thankful for the home I live in..Quiet, except for the ever present Coyote. At least they make noise..Snakes don't. 
But the quiet and the stars at the cabin are truly a blessing! But I do have neighbors, and some of them are Javelinas that walk my fence line almost every evening.
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2015 10:39pm
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love the silence and then a breeze breaks thru the trees.love the silence when gardening or when we lay out on the meadow in the sunshine.cant wait for the silence of winters snow.
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upndown
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# Posted: 25 Aug 2015 11:24pm
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Sorry cabingal3, no more winter snows for me! The last snows I saw in Illinois, I could barely see my house..haha. But I do enjoy a light snowfall at the cabin. 
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2015 03:49am
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dont be sorry upndown.
we all have our different ways.its ok.
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Audiophile
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# Posted: 26 Aug 2015 11:36pm
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Agreed, silence is one of the nice things about cabin life. While looking at land with my wife, we ended up in a small clearing in the woods on a potential lot. I said "Do you hear that?" and she asked, "What?". I said "Exactly." 
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