Terrain probably plays a huge factor in watching downwind. There is almost always 3 of us hunting and 9 times out of 10, none of us can even see down wind. We generally us ATV's and work our way directly into the wind making stands as terrain and wind speed dictate. We park below the next ridge we are going to call from and fan out after we top the ridge so we can cover most of the area. Most of the time we have a pretty good idea where the coyote will come from(previous experience, weather conditions, food sources, available cover ect.). If something does come in downwind they will probably see the ATV's anyway. We just use the terrain to keep them from getting downwind. We hunt areas a lot like the country in Silverfox's picture. The coyote in his picture had little or no chance of getting downwind. We keep working into the wind and drive to the next ridge that we think our sound may have traveled and set up again. Any coyote that could back-door us at this stand should have responded on the previous stand. Even though we can't see downwind very often, we rarely see tracks in the snow where any had come in undetected and winded us. If we come up to one of our favorite stands and the wind isn't quite right and the chance of them winding us is there, we won't call it and wait for the right conditions. In the past we set up and tried cross and downwind with little success. They usually wind you too far out for a shot. That's how we do it and it seems to work very well for us. This has been very interesting reading on how people set up in different parts of the U.S.
