Coyotero:
For the most part I use artificial scent posts for winter deep snow sets. My favorite is a BIG bundle of marsh grass or weeds tied together with a brown cord. These bundles, about 30" long are planted and packed into the snow securely with at least 18" of the grass or weeds sticking up above snow level. There are few storms where the scent post becomes covered completely with snow and becomes invisible or difficult to find. Even if they get covered, one can still see the hump and locate the set. All snow sets are fastened on drag hooks and additional chain which is just thrown out into the snow to sink when constructing the set. By using an extra large snappy trap, the sets will work through about 6" of new snowfall. When they get covered too deep by a large snowfall or covered too much by a few lesser snow falls, I simply raise them up. Some must be raised by up by close hands on application but most, as long as part of the scent post is still showing, are raised in a couple of minutes without even getting close up to the set. I carry a paddle, similar to a boat paddle with a 10 foot light weight handle and a nail in the paddle. I reach out into the snow and hook the trap chain with the paddle and nail and retrieve the trap. Then one reaches out with the paddle and slaps down a new higher up trap bed, places the set trap, wrapped in waxed paper on to the paddle and carefully feed it out to the trap bed. Then one takes the edge of the paddle and carefully fills in around the trap and brushes out the disturbance marks in the snow. I then take a big wooden spoon or teflon frying pan and throw snow up and into the air, allowing it to settle down over the set area until everything looks reasonable finished off. After a new skiff of snow or a little drifting, one would never know there was a disturbance. Hope I explained this well enough for everyone to understand. Ace :grin:
