Three in the morning in Edwards is a blue-black quiet, the valley floor still, the only sound a diesel idling while the blade comes down. CAP Snowplow Vail runs the hours nobody sees — plowing drives and lots off Miller Ranch Road, cutting walkways down to bare pavement, laying sand and de-icer on the pitched approaches that glaze over when a clear night follows a wet storm. By the time headlights begin moving toward the highway and kids are standing out waiting for the bus, the work reads as though nothing had happened, which is exactly the point. Anyone who has stood at a window watching it pile past the doorstep knows what an open driveway is worth before sunrise. Storms here arrive in long cycles, and the truck is out for all of them.