Usually. Other times I've had them walk step for step in my boot tracks. Had one do that a couple weeks ago, had made a couple sets and brushed my tracks out, but didn't bother brushing them out walking down the skid road past them. Dang wolf walked step for step in my boot tracks for a couple hundred yards, the next day, even walked my brushed in tracks over to one set (snow set) but stayed back a couple feet and wouldn't step out on the blended in snow where the trap was. It was snowing when I set and there was about an inch of fresh, but boot tracks still looked pretty much like boot tracks. If I would have just shoved a trap in one of my boot tracks I would have had the dang thing.

I like to brush stuff out with a branch also, looks pretty obvious disturbance right then, but get an inch of snow over it and it really blends in. Best way I've found to blend in boot tracks naturally though is to run over them with a snowmachine if possible.

When I'm out trapping and hauling and cutting up bait all day I smell like an old dead beaver.
I'm like the pied piper-the animals find me extremely interesting and follow me wherever I go.
I keep my hands clean and only handle bait and animals with gloves. Traps and snares bare handed in order to make sure snares and traps dont get any induced smells that dont belong.
Bait/lure scents that are induced where they dont belong is what will bugger up your sets.
As far as movements,animals follow the path of least resistance relatively speaking.

[quote=Boco] You said you use bare hands to set? How do you get the scent off of your hands before setting? You had my curiosity now you have my attention lol