AA Dirtwork & Snow Removal

About AA Dirtwork & Snow Removal

Morning in Sitka arrives grey and generous, rain coming in off the Sound before the harbor lights have finished their shift. AA Dirtwork & Snow Removal works in that weather because there is no other kind — mowing grass that grows fat on Southeast rain, cutting a clean edge along a gravel drive, moving soil until the water finally goes where it should. Out toward Silver Bay the ground is half rock and half rainforest, and a level, draining yard there is something you earn with a rake, a blade and a good grade. When winter stacks heavy wet snow on the road out to Halibut Point, the plow goes early, so a driveway is open and black and clear while it is still dark. It is unglamorous work, and it leaves a place looking like somebody tends it. Under the white cone of Mount Edgecumbe, that counts for a lot.