East of town Highway 86 runs out toward Franktown across open country where snow travels sideways as much as down. Jacobs Landscape & Snow Removal works those nights — plowing driveways and lots, breaking the drift at the end of a lane, clearing walks and steps, salting the shaded spots that hold ice past noon. There is an hour near sunrise when the storm has quit, the plains go pink, and every drive on the route is already scraped bare. Castle Rock wakes to that and mostly never thinks about it. Which is exactly the point.