I'm looking for advice on how to hunt areas with ridges, ravines and creek bottoms. Where I live in NH it's all mountains and big woods hunting. There some farms in the valleys but those keep getting fewer by the year. For the most part deer are very hard to pattern here and we certainly don't have the number of deer you guys have in Ohio. Anyways, last year I ended up hunting an area of public land that was predominantly hardwoods with some decent ridges and some nice bottom land. I hunted it for almost 2 weeks and saw deer (actually it was the most sightings I've had in 3 years hunting Ohio) but did not connect on a buck. I know I made some mistakes hunting this area because of lack of experience with this type of terrain. It seemed as though when I was on the ridge tops I saw more deer but never in range and when I was in the ravines and creek bottoms I got busted by deer because of the swirling winds more times than not. I've read that hunting the ridges in the morning and creek bottoms in the afternoon is generally a good strategy. I've also read that if the bucks are cruising setting up in a creek bottom or ravine with good visibility is a good strategy too. What advice can you guys give to stand placement, calling, etc in an area like this that may help me this year? We'll be out there for 2 weeks in early - mid November so hopefully its during the rut. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated.