Alpine Ventures

About Alpine Ventures

Interstate 70 drops out of the Eisenhower Tunnel and runs down Straight Creek into Dillon, so whatever the sky is doing up on the divide arrives here about ten minutes later. Alpine Ventures keeps its hours by that clock, plowing through the small hours at nine thousand feet, when the town below is a scatter of porch lights and the only color anywhere is a headlight beam full of falling snow. Driveways get opened, walks get taken down to the surface, and ice melt goes where the shade never leaves. Summit County can hand you three feet in a night and then a blue morning so bright it aches, and it is always in that order. The job is simple to describe and hard to do: be there before the day starts.