When I moved them I dug or rather chipped and clawed them down into the frozen ground. Where I moved them to had only a couple inches of snow at the time. With the ground having a pretty good layer of pine needles insulating it some areas were not to bad getting through the inch of frost or so. I used wax dirt and it did a pretty good job keeping the traps functional. On a couple of sets I did use some trap antifreeze flakes mixed in with some dry dirt from an anthill nearby because I ran out of wax dirt. I never did have any issues with the traps freezing in. They were all meticulously bedded and solid. Although that may have been the only thing I did right.

It did seem like SniperB mentioned that by the time I set up on tracks they were only going through one direction and I wasn't getting in front of them. My other big mistake probably being my failure to be patient.

When it does snow say 6 inches is it necessary to clear the trap of snow or just leave it be?