Its coming down near Rocky and I hope up around Smith.  Now I can get more seriously into hunting. Deer the next few days and then calf moose up north.   And I can smell garlic and ground venison (my daughter shot a fat doe awhile back) on the stove.  My wife is getting deer lasagna ready for supper.

And its gone already. Boooooooo!

Got to thinking about what I chose as the title to this thread.

And really how snow effects my hunting.

1. it gives a better indication of what trails deer are using right now (since the end of a snow fall)  (and driving slowly down a road you can see where deer trails are crossing it recently)
2. it makes scrapes that are in use easier to see
3. it makes the ground white and so easier to see brown deer
4. If you shoot a deer it makes tracking it to recovery easier
5. If it freezes and gets "crunchy" it makes it easier to hear a deer coming when you are sitting waiting

I rarely actually get on a track and follow it hoping to get to see the deer that made that track.

It's also darn handy for telling where other hunters are as well. Nothing more disappointing than walking down a line for a couple miles just to find someone else doing the same. With snow most of the time we can tell if someone recently has went down a trail or line..