Scouting now I look for the past years rub lines and travel corridors. Finding decent trails is good, but at this point of the year deer can be concentrated up and heavily using places that come next fall will be barren. So when you are out there now, finding super fresh sign isn't that critical, as they may or may not use an area year round. FInd your bedding areas, potential feeding areas and just note all of them. Once the season rolls around and you can see which places the deer are hanging out in, you'll already know what trees/stand sites that are good for those areas.