same thing here , frozen snow was so loud walking to my stand the otherday it ws giving ME a headache. i also dropped the top half of my climber on the bottom half which made a thunderous DING! about 5 minutes after I got up the tree, I had 4 does pass under my stand. Im only hunting about 40 acres so I know they must have heard all my noise, they were on a their way somewhere and my bumbling wasnt gonna stop them.