The southern slopes that buckmaster68 spoke of are also ideal locations for deer because of the ease of feeding, due to the suns placement in the sky during the winter causes the southern facing slopes to recieve more sunlight during the warmer hours of the day, recieveing more sunlight at a higher melting rate of snow cover than the other slopes, thus providing the deer an area with a thiner layer of ground snow cover that requires less pawing through snow for ease in feeding and browseing.