Went out to a new piece of public land in the Appalachian Mountains today to scout areas I marked using LiDAR data on CalTopo and stuff I’ve picked up from forums like these. Understanding it’s out of season and deer migrate/sign changes, it was nice to see some of the e-scouting pay off, as I believe I found a trail of old and new rubs guided by fresh deer tracks and ultimately leading to a nice sized single bed towards the higher elevations of a southeastern slope. Several elevation bands lower, there were a ton of doe beds and scat all through mountain laurel. It’s cool to see the sign, I just need to get out more and try and figure how to put it all together.