Quietude or lack thereof

[DuneElliot]

So true. I live in Charlotte and the plane noise is absolutely ridiculous. Moving west into the mountains you still get a lot of the flight path noise and the motorcycles. I love western NC, but this stuff does make me sigh a bit when I'm on the trail.

This was one of the saddest things about backpacking the Uinta Highline Trail last month...the High Uinta Wilderness lies below the flight path straight out of or into Salt Lake City. It was fairly remote and high above, but still audible especially when I wasn't hiking and taking a break or in my tent.

[Slo-go'en]

It can be very quite in the Whites. Even quieter in Maine, as the trail is far from any high traffic highways.

Jets are cruising at 30,000 feet going over here, but there is the occasional military jet or private Piper Cub.

Then there is PA, where the sound of highway noise was pretty much non-stop for the whole state.