A chinook can take Berthoud from ten inches to bare grass in a day, and the sequence in between is where the work lives: plow, clear, then treat what melts at noon and freezes again at dusk. McCrary & Sons runs that cycle — driveways and lots pushed open, walks scraped down and the stairs cleared, de-icer laid on the refreeze before it can catch anybody out. Front Range snow rarely stays, but it never leaves on your schedule either. There is a quiet pride in beating the freeze-thaw to the punch. When the warm wind finally spills over the foothills, it finds nothing left to do.