Going back to finding the Snow Woman, having assist helps. Also, I like to use the official guide (to this day) to help me figure out where I am in conjunction to the map. It gives you a brief description about each area, like if there's nothing there, or it's a snowboard entrance, or there's an item there. Hopefully, a gamefaq does something like that. Assuming it was accurate, it was probably the more useful parts of the offical guide.