Last rifle season we got a fair amount of snow. I grabbed the snowshoes and headed back into some fields that no one in their right mind would trudge through the snow to hoping to catch a deer at some point in them. What I found was all the deer tracks I found were with in 200 yards of the road and cabins/houses I parked by. The farther back I got there wasn't tracks to be found. Snow less than 24hrs old if that.

I hunted the rest of the season closer to where I parked and saw deer. All SF land.