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actually the very worst most annoying sound was a jesus freak convention in Yosemite Valley and they sang religious songs till 2am.

Perhaps the scariest camping sound in california is the rather quiet sound of a man walking through deep gravel outside your tent, when you know you're camped on rock or dirt. Its the throaty purr of a mountain lion.

My wife says to add that having a volcano blow off steam 40 miles away was the most frightening sound she ever heard. We were up on Mt Rainear when Mt Saint Helens popped off a minor "steam venting". A huge brown cloud of it.

Jim