This was definitely a scrape that I found also...there was a licking branch above it and a rub at the edge of it. Since the area was the size of a mattress, it seems rather large for them to be clearing away to bed down. We only have about an inch of snow on the ground too. I wonder if these late season scrapes are made by mature bucks, or could it be young ones as well? I wish I had a scouting camera to set up by that scrape [&:]