Alpine Valley Services

About Alpine Valley Services

Cold air slides down the Fryingpan canyon after dark and settles over Basalt, and what fell soft at dusk is set firm by two in the morning. Alpine Valley Services keeps hours to match — plowing driveways and lots, opening walks and entries, laying sand or ice melt on the shaded stretches that never catch midday sun. Roads along the river are pitched and narrow, so snow is stacked with an eye on where the meltwater will run once the day warms. There is a stillness to plowing at that hour: headlights, steam, the river still moving beneath its ice. By breakfast nobody has to think about any of it, which is exactly the intent.