Frisco sits in a bowl at nine thousand feet, ringed by lodgepole that climbs the shoulder of Mount Royal until the trees give up and the rock takes over. Alpine Fire Mitigation, LLC. AFM Roll-Offs works the green months down on the valley floor, when the short high-country summer turns the yards a startling emerald for eight or nine weeks. Mowing, trimming and edging come first; then the slower business of clearing a property of everything the season shed, loading it out, and hauling it away so the ground around a house can breathe again. There is a particular satisfaction in the last pass of an afternoon — the lawn cut level, the borders sharp, the drive swept, nothing left but the smell of cut grass and warm pine. They keep close to home, working Frisco and the towns strung along the Blue River valley, near enough that the peaks stay in the mirror all day.