August afternoons build fast over Baldy — blue all morning, then a grey wall coming up the drainage, then wind shoving hard through the lodgepole above Illinois Gulch. Wind is honest; it tells you which limbs were already gone. Tree Guy LLC works the trees that storms argue with: hazard limbs hanging over a roof or a parked car, standing dead pine, crown thinning so a canopy lets weather pass through it instead of catching all of it. Removals when that is the honest answer, then chipping and hauling until a yard shows no sign anyone was there except the light coming in differently. Around Breckenridge that is what tending a tree looks like — cuts made so a mountain tree can take what is headed its way.