Around the solstice the sun barely clears the ridgeline, and the shadow never quite leaves the north side of a driveway. Solstice Snow Removal takes those weeks head-on in Estes Park — plowing drives, shoveling walkways, and cutting through the packed berm the plow trucks leave at the road's edge. Out toward Dry Gulch the wind does half its drifting after the snow has stopped, so one pass is rarely the end of the story. The work happens at hours nobody else is awake for, and the whole point of it is somebody backing out at seven without a second thought. A cleared drive on the darkest morning of the year is a genuinely kind thing.