The key is to really see what your looking at. Its hard for me to write out how I see things. I know I’m a freak and drive people nuts sometimes. Looking across a field, some people see the rolling landscape and the brushy fence row, and maybe the wooded lot set back behind field.
To me, I would see the fence row with no cover, the curvature of the knolls to form bottle necks, the small wooded lot behind the field, the huge marsh a 1/4 mile away, the drainage ditch in the next field with a big dip in the rim of the cut, the culvert and field road,….. It drives me nuts sometimes because I can’t just look at something. I have to see everything that is there and what is next to it.
For deep “soft” snow, the first thing that I think of is where would I set a mouse trap or go bunny hunting. Where is the grocery store? Then I look for where I anticipate them coming from. Coyotes and fox like to sun themselves, and if they aren’t in a den, you can usually bet on them laying down in tall grass (depending on your topo and enviroment/eco sysytem). Which way is the wind? Can you set yourself set up for the best vantage point to see them going into the wind to get to the grocery store? Is there snow drifts? If so, 9 out of 10 times they will run a brushy area that is protected from a snow drift where the snow is very shallow. Bunnies will also be on the protected side of a snow drift. Lower snow, means more food sources for the bunny, which means a better chance of old Wiley hunting a area populated with bunnies.
Your up in an area with snow shoe bunnies???? A clearing in a tag alder swamp would be ideal, so are logging roads, deer trails. They aren’t too different from humans in the sense they will travel the path of least resistance for an easier meal. Kind of like us going to a drive thru. Make sense????
Sorry to hear that one had mange. 
Keep the reports and pictures coming! 
I’m already tired of the white stuff. 
