That's pretty much classic ridge and valley topography through there. I wouldn't call it mountains.

To a deer a ridge is either a travel option or an obstacle to be crossed. Ideal stand sites are intersections of two or more secondary points or easy up/down sloping long secondary points. Saddles are good stand sites. Old logging road on top of the ridge with an intersection of a saddle and steep draw coming up.

You need to understand what is below you. You want to hunt high over the thickest cover you can find down below in some sort of combination of terrain feature.

In my opinion easier to kill a mature deer in some terrain than flat pine land where they just run everywhere and all anyone knows how to do is blast the first one that sticks their nose out in the food plot.

Enjoy. Fun hunting in the hills.


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