Not really creepy or scary , but . I ' m a solo backpacking hammocker . Lots of experience . I always wander off trail to bed down . My usual is to find seclusion . Once , I was out on a quick overnighter . I was on a new trail . I knew the general area but not this route . I ' d hiked a few miles and it was getting late and dark . I turned off trail and upmountain . After ascending about 300 feet the ground leveled out at the peak . I found some trees and hung the hammock . Right before daybreak the next morning I heard a huge and sudden engine roar right next to me . Scared the hell out of me . For a second I didn ' t know where in the hell I was . Turns out , I had set up camp not 8 feet from a high mountain road . Some dude had parked his atv there before I arrived and camped on the opposite side of the road , and was cranking up to head out . He never saw me and I could ' ve reached out and touched him I was that close . I laughed , and felt like an idiot at the same time .