NY, east of Lake Ontario, the only way you can walk the woods is with a real good pair of snowshoes. We just got blasted with 2 1/2ft snow yesterday, thats ontop of the 3ft alreadly had!! The deer around my place use 1 main trail along the edge of a pond, through a thick hemlock woods. They bed anyplace along its edge. But I've been seeing a steady herd of around dozen deer. They go to some corn thats available for them all winter long. The deep snow, and below zero temps makes you wonder how they can survive at all around here. They're definitly amazing animals.