Three of us just recently returned from a backpack adventure in the reaches of Happy Canyon. We found the solitude we were after, whole days not seeing another person's footprint. Yet the sounds of croaking toads by the spring, the howling of the coyotes, the sweet song of the canyon wrens were frequently drowned out by the sound of jets overhead. I suppose the complete lack of other human initiated noise raised the sensitivity to the frequency and loudness of air traffic.
So I just wonder, was the weather just right to highten the noise level? Did we just happen to be in a place where more air traffic occurs?
We don't backpack very often, just getting into it, my question is "in planning a backback route seeking silence, are there ways to factor in the air traffic noise, or is this just a hit and miss kind of thing?"