Trek Assessment #1

During my first trek, there's an area just up the road for my house where a trail leads back into the deep woods of Mule Hill. Normally there aren't many people there at night since during the day it acts as a nice place for people to walk their dogs or get some exercise in. My first trek was really composed of two treks: one for which I gathered sounds during the day and the other for which I gathered sounds at night. Collecting the sounds in that area of the woods at night got pretty scary. Without much traffic on the roads, being so deep in the woods and so far away from help if I needed it just gave me shivers. So I recorded sounds in those woods as quickly as I could before booking it back out to the main road. Then again, during my first trek while collecting sounds during the day, what really bothered me was when I was trying to gather all natural sounds, blocking out as much of anything man made as I could. But during the day there's so much traffic and so many cars driving by it was so hard to get sounds that way. Only in a select few spots could I be so far away from main roads where I could get some natural sounds of the wind through the trees, the birds, and the true environment I was surrounded by.