Megss and I were hanging in the nature park that backs up to my property. There are a LOT of deer that roam the area. We were hanging maybe 15 feet apart when we heard one of them starting to puff out and dig his/her foot. I thought if one of us even flinched we were going to get whacked like a piniata. Took me a while to get to sleep after that
A couple years back, I was hanging with LiquidPlasma (a lurker here). Something tripped over one of the guylines on my tarp, then ran under the foot end of his hammock. I maintain that it was too short to have been a deer, but too big to be a groundhog or raccoon, judging by how heavy it sounded. My best guess is coyote, but I'll probably never know. I have seen coyotes in the park before.
hanging the other weekend in the national forest. I was at a designated primitive camp that have been set up on the trail as alternative to hunter camps. Unfortunately, because it's the first year of the designated primitive camps, a lot of the hunters don't know where they are located. I woke up at 4am to a shotgun blasting nearby. There was no moon so it was completely dark. Scary that someone was shooting that close in the dark.
spiders!!!!!!!!!!
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Thinking about being back in a tent!
Dead asleep with no bug net or tarp (a lovely July night) and a squirrel or gust of wind knocked an acorn from a branch above me. Random objects landing on your face will wake you up in the least gentle of ways.
A screaming owl just outside of my hammock. Extremely loud and close. I guess it didn't like me there.
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When the very large, healthy-looking tree that I was tied too fell over in the middle of the night.
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Mine was another instance of something unknown coming under my hammock to do what I'm not sure, but when I sat up in surprise I sat on the poor thing and it had a hard time getting away. It would have been mostly funny except I sensed something off near my head that was much larger and just watching. Thank goodness it wasn't a porcupine!
I live on a property where the coyotes are common and quite loud. Funny how you get used to that sound. Scariest thing may have been a large moose walking right into camp up to the fire and about 10 feet or less from me prior to wandering off.
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