Originally Posted by UncleNorby

The area you pointed out is a saddle, but as you have observed, not much of one. There is a more pronounced saddle back down the ridge to the SSE of the one you noted, just to the right of the "BM 1049".

Saddles can be great, or they can just be a saddle. Deer need a reason to want to cross the ridge, and then the saddle becomes the natural crossing because it takes less energy to cross the ridge in a low-point.

I look for a saddle, and then I look for the place within the saddle where a "bench" in the side-hill (think of it as a landing in the middle of a run of steps) runs into the saddle.

Benches, like ridge tops, are great natural travel ways, and are often great feeding areas too. The combination of a bench, ridge-top and a saddle is hard to beat for all day sits in early November.